Development and prospect ofbotanical drugs in the treatment of lung cancer–a visualisation study based on

Introduction

Lung cancer has one of the highest death rates in the world. modern medicine is the main treatment, but it has many side effects. Scholars have turned their attention to botanical drugs. It is found that in addition to treating lung cancer, it can also reduce side effects, improve the immunity of patients and the quality of lives of patients.

Methods

We searched journal papers from the Web of Science database dated from January 2002 to March 2023 in the field of botanical drugs treating lung cancer, we used Cite Space, VOS viewer, Pajet analysis software to analyze publication, author, institution, country, keyword, keyword cluster, journals of co-citation analysis, burst keyword, and drew visual maps.

Results

814 articles were obtained,Liu Liang published the most papers in the field, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was an important scientific research institution, and it had more cooperation with other institutions. China had the largest number of publications. The research content mainly focused on lung cancer, apoptosis, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese herb medicine, efficacy, chemotherapy, signalling pathways, mechanisms, and in vitro. Ten significant clusters were generated by keyword cluster analysis. The Journal Of Ethnopharmacology (929 citations) and Cancer Research (683 citations) were excellent journals in the JCR1 region. The top 18 burst keywords showed the hot research issues in the past more than 20 years.

Conclusion

The research is still in initial stage. This paper shows the current situation, research progress, and hotspots of the field with the help of visual maps.