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Record W4417075720 · doi:10.4103/ijar.ijar_348_25

Research at the intersection of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A protocol for a bibliometric analysis

2025· article· en· W4417075720 on OpenAlexaff
Junxiao Liu, Mirela-Ioana Bilc, Jeremy Y. Ng

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Ayurveda Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTraditional Chinese Medicine Studies
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityImpact
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdentifierIntersection (aeronautics)ScopusBibliometricsMEDLINEProtocol (science)CitationSubject (documents)Integrative medicine

Abstract

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ABSTRACT: Background: Traditional, 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. Despite the applicability of AI to TCIM research, the intersection of these topics remains underexplored. Methods: A search string encompassing terms related to TCIM and AI will be run on MEDLINE, with no restrictions by date, language, or publication type. Retrieved MEDLINE records will subsequently be used as the source for Digital Object Identifier citation searches in Scopus. No manual cleaning of MEDLINE or Scopus records will be performed, given the comprehensive search strategy and the complexities of defining the TCIM scope. The following bibliometric data will be collected: number of publications (including total publications and publications per year), open access status, subject area, document type, publication stage, publications per journal, author affiliations, funding sponsors, publication country, source type, and publication language. Performance analysis indicators (e.g., citations and publications) will be identified and presented. Bibliometric network maps will be visualized using VOSviewer, with thematic clusters identified and presented. Conclusions: This bibliometric analysis study will provide insights into research productivity at the intersection of TCIM and AI, informing future research directions and policy development.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.175
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.279
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Bibliometrics
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.947
Threshold uncertainty score0.923

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1750.279
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0100.010
Bibliometrics0.0530.066
Science and technology studies0.0050.006
Scholarly communication0.0090.008
Open science0.0050.008
Research integrity0.0050.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0460.012

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.503
GPT teacher head0.593
Teacher spread0.090 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
DomainEvaluation
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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