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The quest for modernisation of traditional Chinese medicine

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2013
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Title
The quest for modernisation of traditional Chinese medicine
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-13-132
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Authors

Qihe Xu, Rudolf Bauer, Bruce M Hendry, Tai-Ping Fan, Zhongzhen Zhao, Pierre Duez, Monique SJ Simmonds, Claudia M Witt, Aiping Lu, Nicola Robinson, De-an Guo, Peter J Hylands

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an integral part of mainstream medicine in China. Due to its worldwide use, potential impact on healthcare and opportunities for new drug development, TCM is also of great international interest. Recently, a new era for modernisation of TCM was launched with the successful completion of the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era (GP-TCM) project, the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) coordination action on TCM research. This 3.5-year project that involved inputs from over 200 scientists resulted in the production of 20 editorials and in-depth reviews on different aspects of TCM that were published in a special issue of Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2012; volume 140, issue 3). In this narrative review, we aim to summarise the findings of the FP7 GP-TCM project and highlight the relevance of TCM to modern medicine within a historical and international context. Advances in TCM research since the 1950s can be characterised into three phases: Phase I (1950s-1970s) was fundamental for developing TCM higher education, research and hospital networks in China; Phase II (1980s-2000s) was critical for developing legal, economic and scientific foundations and international networks for TCM; and Phase III (2011 onwards) is concentrating on consolidating the scientific basis and clinical practice of TCM through interdisciplinary, interregional and intersectoral collaborations. Taking into account the quality and safety requirements newly imposed by a globalised market, we especially highlight the scientific evidence behind TCM, update the most important milestones and pitfalls, and propose integrity, integration and innovation as key principles for further modernisation of TCM. These principles will serve as foundations for further research and development of TCM, and for its future integration into tomorrow's medicine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Zimbabwe 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mauritius 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 216 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 18%
Student > Bachelor 26 12%
Researcher 22 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 8%
Student > Postgraduate 14 6%
Other 42 19%
Unknown 60 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 5%
Other 57 26%
Unknown 65 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2020.
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#3,552,506
of 22,711,645 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#675
of 3,619 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,973
of 196,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#17
of 97 outputs
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