Health and Chinese Beliefs: A Scientometric Analysis of Health Literature Related to Taoism and Confucianism
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Health and Chinese Beliefs: A Scientometric Analysis of Health Literature Related to Taoism and Confucianism Engin Şenel2,1
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Abstract Taoism and Confucianism both exited simultaneously as philosophies of living in dynastic China. Although there has been an increasing popularity in scientometric studies, religion and health (R&H) literature lacks a holistic evaluation investigating articles relevant to Taoism and Confucianism. All publications produced in Taoism and Confucianism literature and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) databases between 1975 and 2018 were included in this study. Database search on health and Taoism literature retrieved 199 documents from WoS databases. Main research areas were Psychology, Religion and Behavioral Sciences (24.121, 21.608 and 20.603, respectively). The USA ranked first with 38 papers followed China, Taiwan and the UK (n = 35, 20 and 6 documents, respectively). Hong Kong Polytechnic University from China was the most contributor institution in health and Taoism literature. A total of 448 documents were published in health and Confucianism literature between 1975 and 2018, and original articles covered 93.08% of all literature. China was leading country with 126 articles followed by the USA, South Korea and Taiwan (n = 97, 35 and 35 items, respectively). The most productive institutions were City University of Hong Kong (China), Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and University of Hong Kong (China). Researchers from developing and least developed countries should be encouraged to carry out novel scientometric studies in R&H literature. Keywords Taoism · Confucianism · Health · Bibliometrics · Scientometrics · Publication trend
* Engin Şenel [email protected] 1
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, 19030 Çorum, Turkey
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Traditional and Complementary Research and Application Center, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey
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Journal of Religion and Health
Introduction Chinese civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a written history of about 5000 years. The Chinese settled in the center of Asian history as a nation of great culture and civilization with the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE). The Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) was the first dynasty of Imperial China created a united mainland with a large army supported by a stable economy and central powerful political power. Philosophies such as Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism, which form the basis of Chinese thought, also matured in this period. According to Danylova, Taoism is defined as “the only one religious and philosophical system that encourages its adherents to live a happy, long, healthy life in this world.”. It has contributed to the development of medicine and science in China by means of discovery of many herbs and minerals to prolong human life and to reach immortality (Danylova 2014). Confucianism also known as Ruism (ruxue, rujia or rujiao) is often described
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