TABLE 2.
Top 20 journals in terms of number of articles published.
| Publication | Number of literature (articles) | Proportion (%) |
| Medicine | 38 | 6.73 |
| Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 35 | 6.20 |
| Trials | 21 | 3.72 |
| Acupuncture in Medicine | 18 | 3.19 |
| Frontiers in Aging Neuroscienced | 15 | 2.66 |
| BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 12 | 2.12 |
| Neural Regeneration Research | 11 | 1.95 |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 10 | 1.77 |
| Frontiers in Neurology | 9 | 1.59 |
| Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | 9 | 1.59 |
| Neural Plasticity | 8 | 1.42 |
| PLOS One | 8 | 1.42 |
| World Journal of Acupuncture Moxibustion | 8 | 1.42 |
| BMJ Open | 7 | 1.24 |
| Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science | 7 | 1.24 |
| Explore the Journal of Science and Healing | 6 | 1.06 |
| Frontiers in Psychology | 6 | 1.06 |
| European Journal of Integrative Medicine | 5 | 0.89 |
| Frontiers in Neuroscience | 5 | 0.89 |
| Journal of Nervous and Mental | 5 | 0.89 |