Thematic Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Applied in Cancer-Related Symptoms

作     者：jose a.moral-munoz manuel arroyo-morales barbara f.piper antonio i.cuesta-vargas lourdes díaz-rodríguez william c.s.cho enrique herrera-viedma manuel j.cobo Jose A.Moral-Munoz;Manuel Arroyo-Morales;Barbara F.Piper;Antonio I.Cuesta-Vargas;Lourdes Díaz-Rodríguez;William C.S.Cho;Enrique Herrera-Viedma;Manuel J.Cobo

作者机构：dept.nursing and physiotherapyuniversity of cádizCadizSpain institute of research and innovation in biomedical sciences of the province of cádiz(ini bica)university of cádizCadizSpain dept.physical therapyuniversity of granadaGranadaSpain dept.nursingschool of health and human servicesnational universitysan diegocausa school clinical sciencequeensland university of technologyBrisbaneQLDAustralia instituto biosanitario(ibs)university of granadaGranadaSpain hospital authorityHong KongChina dept.computer science and artificial intelligenceuniversity of granadaGranadaSpain dept.of computer science and engineeringuniversity of cádizCadizSpain 

出 版 物：《Journal of Data and Information Science》 (数据与情报科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第3卷第2期

页      面：1-19页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 0302[法学-政治学] 05[文学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the Andalusian Excellence Project TIC-5991 Spanish National Project TIN2016-75850-R J.A.Moral-Munoz held an FPU scholarship (AP2012-1789) from the Spanish Ministry of Education 

主　　题：Cancer-related symptoms Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bibliometrics Science mapping analysis Thematic evolution H-index 

摘      要：Purpose： The main goal of this study is to discover the scientific evolution of Cancer-Related Symptoms in Complementary and Alternative Medicine research area, analyzing the articles indexed in the Web of Science database from 1980 to 2013.Design/Methodology/Approach： A co-word science mapping analysis is performed under a longitudinal framework（1980 to 2013）. The documental corpus is divided into two subperiods,1980–2008 and 2009–2013. Thus, the performance and impact rates, and conceptual evolution of the research field are shown.Findings： According to the results, the co-word analysis allows us to identify 12 main thematic areas in this emerging research field： anxiety, survivors and palliative care,meditation, treatment, symptoms and cancer types, postmenopause, cancer pain, low back pain, herbal medicine, children, depression and insomnia, inflammation mediators, and lymphedema. The different research lines are identified according to the main thematic areas,centered fundamentally on anxiety and suffering prevention. The scientific community can use this information to identify where the interest is focused and make decisions in different ways.Research limitation： Several limitations can be addressed： 1） some of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies may not have been included; 2） only the documents indexed in Web of Science are analyzed; and 3） the thematic areas detected could change if another dataset was considered.Practical implications： The results obtained in the present study could be considered as an evidence-based framework in which future studies could be built.Originality/value： Currently, there are no studies that show the thematic evolution of this research area.