Table 5.
Journals contributed to publications on acupuncture for cerebral infarction from 1993 to 2023.
| Journal | Frequency | IF (2022) | Journal | Centrality | IF (2022) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroke | 349 | 8.40 | Acupuncture Electro Therapeutics Research | 0.75 | 0.30 |
| Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 192 | 2.65 | Brain Research | 0.63 | 2.90 |
| PLoS ONE | 175 | 3.70 | Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine | 0.56 | 2.60 |
| Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | 147 | 2.60 | Stroke | 0.51 | 8.40 |
| LLancet | 144 | 168.90 | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow And Metabolism | 0.39 | 6.30 |
| Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine | 144 | 2.60 | Neuroscience Letters | 0.29 | 2.50 |
| American Journal of Chinese Medicine | 141 | 5.70 | Journal of Neurolinguistics | 0.29 | 2.00 |
| Neuroscience Letters | 139 | 2.50 | Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 0.28 | 2.65 |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 138 | 8.40 | Clinical Rehabilitation | 0.28 | 3.00 |
| Neural Regeneration Research | 134 | 6.10 | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | 0.27 | 2.60 |
In this table, the other two identical columns represent different rankings. The left column of the table represents the journals that have published acupuncture for cerebral infarction. The frequency of contribution is sorted from high to low. The column on the right represents the sorting from high to low according to centrality. The bold values represent the size of the impact factor for the journal in 2022. For example, 5.7 represents the impact factor for “American Journal of Chinese Medicine” in 2022, while the bold number 8.40 represents the size of the impact factor for “Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews” in 2022.