RT journal article
T1 Thematic Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Applied in Cancer-Related Symptoms
A1 Moral Muñoz, José Antonio
A1 Arroyo-Morales, Manuel
A1 Piper, Barbara F.
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I.
A1 Díaz-Rodríguez, Lourdes
A1 Cho, William C.S.
A1 Herrera-Viedma, Enrique
A1 Cobo Martín, Manuel Jesús
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
A2 Ingeniería Informática
K1 Cancer-related symptoms
K1 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
K1 Bibliometrics
K1 Science mapping analysis
K1 Thematic evolution
K1 H-index
AB Purpose: The main goal of this study is to discover the scientific evolution of Cancer-RelatedSymptoms in Complementary and Alternative Medicine research area, analyzing the articlesindexed in the Web of Science database from 1980 to 2013.Design/Methodology/Approach: A co-word science mapping analysis is performed under alongitudinal 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 evolutionof the research field are shown.Findings: According to the results, the co-word analysis allows us to identify 12 mainthematic areas in this emerging research field: anxiety, survivors and palliative care,meditation, treatment, symptoms and cancer types, postmenopause, cancer pain, low backpain, herbal medicine, children, depression and insomnia, inflammation mediators, andlymphedema. The different research lines are identified according to the main thematic areas,centered fundamentally on anxiety and suffering prevention. The scientific community canuse this information to identify where the interest is focused and make decisions in differentways.Research limitation: Several limitations can be addressed: 1) some of the Complementaryand Alternative Medicine therapies may not have been included; 2) only the documentsindexed in Web of Science are analyzed; and 3) the thematic areas detected could change ifanother dataset was considered.Practical implications: The results obtained in the present study could be considered as anevidence-based framework in which future studies could be built.Originality/value: Currently, there are no studies that show the thematic evolution of thisresearch area.
PB De Gruyter
SN 2543-683X
YR 2018
FD 2018-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21216
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21216
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026