SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Neurol.
Sec. Headache and Neurogenic Pain
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1609437
Advances in orofacial pain research: a bibliometric analysis
Provisionally accepted
- 1Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, China
- 2Shandong Health Group Zaozhuang Hospital, Zaohuang, China
- 3The Third Medical Center of the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, BeiJing, China
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Objective:orofacial pain has become increasingly prevalent with the advancement of society and economy. Bibliometrics, an interdisciplinary field encompassing mathematics, statistics, and information science, offers insights into the trends, research focal points, and knowledge framework of orofacial pain through quantitative analysis of relevant literature. This study aims to systematically map the evolutionary trajectory of orofacial pain research from 2000 to 2024. It will analyze publication trends, collaborative networks, and emerging hotspots to provide data-driven guidance for future research directions and resource allocation. Methods: This study employed bibliometric analysis to examine literature published between 2000 and 2024 using keywords such as "Face Pain," "Craniofacial Pain," "Neuralgic Facial Pain," "Myofacial Pain," "oral-maxillofacial pain," "Oral and maxillofacial pain," and "Orofacial Pain." Utilizing tools like CiteSpace and VOSviewer, we conducted trend analysis on publication volume, constructed author collaboration networks, and performed keyword co-occurrence analysis. Results: Our analysis revealed a rising publication trend in the field, the establishment of a core group of authors, continuous expansion of collaboration networks, and current research focal points on "diagnostic criteria," "manual therapy," "systematic review," "quality," "joint disorders," "scale," and "care." Conclusion: This study demonstrates that bibliometrics offers a comprehensive and objective quantitative analysis for academic research, aiding researchers in understanding disciplinary developments, providing a scientific foundation for future research directions and resource allocation, and fostering sustainable disciplinary growth and innovation.
Keywords: Orofacial Pain, bibliometric analysis, Cooperative network analysis, co-occurrence network analysis, keyword analysis
Received: 10 Apr 2025; Accepted: 28 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Qin, Liu, Fan, Qin and Jia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jing Jia, The Third Medical Center of the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, BeiJing, China
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