Table 1.

Top 10 converging subject terms in the global pharmaceutical industry (China vs. the United States)

Ranking	Subject term (China)	Record count	Subject term (U.S.)	Record count
1	traditional Chinese medicinal composition	673	pharmaceutical composition	1049
2	traditional Chinese medicine	589	treating cancer	590
3	pharmaceutical composition	440	breast cancer	287
4	radix astragali	245	biological sample	286
5	preparing medicine	233	rheumatoid arthritis	280
6	orange peel	212	alzheimers disease	266
7	radix codonopsitis	186	nucleic acid	238
8	rhizomeligusticiwallichii	172	multiple sclerosis	205
9	rhizomecoptidis	159	treating disease	194
10	treating cancer	156	lung cancer	187