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REVIEW article
Front. Neurol.
Sec. Sleep Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1486548
Interference between immune cells and insomnia：A Bibliometric Analysis from 2000 to 2023
Provisionally accepted- 1 Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
- 2 Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
In the current manuscript, Tang et al. provides a bibliometric analysis on the association between insomnia and the immune system. Although the motivation is clear and the results are sufficiently presented, the analysis and the discussion do not seem comprehensive, as relevant literature is missing.Whether this is due to a personal choice, omission or data source limitations is not clear, but either way, this raises concerns regarding the true novelty/comprehensiveness of the manuscript. Please see my comments and suggestions below:1.It is unclear from the methods whether the literature search with the keywords were done with specifications (e.g. search only in title/abstracts). The total number of 481 publications identified sounds rather few for a span of 20 years. Is this due to data source limitations? While I do appreciate that the authors highlight this as a potential limitation of their manuscript, this may be a crucial shortcoming considering that the manuscript is meant to be a comprehensive overview of the literature.We appreciate the reviewer's insightful comment. Regarding the relatively small number of publications identified, we conducted multiple verifications and found that indeed only 481 relevant articles were available in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database. This result is
Keywords: insomnia, autoimmune encephalitis, Natural Killer cells, T cells, B cells, Comorbid
Received: 26 Aug 2024; Accepted: 04 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Tang, Zeng, Chen and Chen. 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:
Nana Tang, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi Province, China
Shupeng Chen, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, 330004, Jiangxi Province, China
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