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Research at the Intersection of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A Bibliometric Analysis

2025-12-11 health informatics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundTraditional, complementary, and integrative medicine (TCIM) describes a broad collection of medical interventions, practices, and belief systems that fall outside the purview of conventional medicine. Accompanying the recent growth of TCIM research productivity, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have increasingly impacted areas of biomedical research, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and drug discovery. This bibliometric analysis explores the characteristics of research...

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