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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Neurol.
Sec. Headache and Neurogenic Pain
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1486584
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative Approaches to Neuralgia: Mechanisms and Treatment Development View all 3 articles

Research progress of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a bibliometric study from 2013 to 2024

Provisionally accepted
HUI QING QIN HUI QING QIN WEI SHAN Lin WEI SHAN Lin YU CHANG GUI YU CHANG GUI YUN TANG YUN TANG JIAN WEN XU JIAN WEN XU *
  • First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

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    Background Neuropathic pain（NP）is a complication with a high incidence after spinal cord injury（SCI）. It is clinically challenging to treat, and offen results in debilitating consequence to patients. In recent years, the research on NP is popular subject and a number of relevant articles have been published in academic journals. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the global researchs trend of NP after SCI use bibliometric method. Methods Literature screening from 2013 to 2024 is based on the Web of Science core collection(WOSCC). Analyzing these publications including annual publications, journals, authors, references, keywords via CiteSpace, in order to help excavate the current research direction and hotspots in this field. Results A total of 2022 publications were included in the analysis. The results showed that there is an overall upward trend in the number of publications was observed in the study period. The top five productive journals are Spinal Cord, Journal of Neurotrauma, Pain, Experimental Neurology, Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, their journals related to spinal cord or pain. The top five most productive scholars are Armin Curt, Michael G Fehlings, Wu Junfang, John L K Kramer, Farinaz Nasirinezhad. Keyword bursts shows signaling pathway, neuroinfammation, neuralgia, spinal cord stimulation, inhibition, and depression become new research hotspots in the field of NP after SCI. Conclusion By and large, this study provides a basis for the study of pain after SCI. It summarizes past research on NP following SCI and offers valuable data reference for further exploration of research trends and focus issues in this field. Keywords: Spinal cord injury; Neuropathic pain; Research progress; Bibliometrics; CiteSpace

    Keywords: neuropathic pain, Research progress, Bibliometrics, spinal cord injury, Citespace

    Received: 28 Aug 2024; Accepted: 03 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 QIN, Lin, GUI, TANG and XU. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: JIAN WEN XU, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

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