News Express: UM team’s article on traditional Chinese medicine treatment for COVID-19 patients ranks top in terms of citation frequency
新聞快訊：澳大團隊中藥治療新冠論文被引次數最高
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澳大團隊中藥治療新冠論文被引次數最高
An article on traditional Chinese medicine treatment for COVID-19 patients published by a UM team ranks top in terms of citation frequency
澳大團隊中藥治療新冠論文被引次數最高
澳門大學中華醫藥研究院院長陳新教授帶領的研究團隊，發表了題為《中醫藥治療 2019 新型冠狀病毒（SARS-CoV-2）感染患者：回顧與展望》的綜述論文，於中醫藥防治新冠肺炎的SCI期刊論文中，成為被引用次數最高的論文。
截至2023年3月20日，該論文在資料庫Web of Science同類論文中的引用次數為486次，被引排名第一；在資料庫Scopus被引用次數為573次，在Google 學術搜尋被引用次數為914次。該文還是Web of Science的高被引論文，同時也是生物學及生物化學領域被引次數最高的前1%文章。
該篇論文由研究團隊於2020年3月發表於國際權威學術期刊《國際生物科學學報》（International Journal of Biological Sciences）。該論文的共同第一作者是澳大中華醫藥研究院碩士生楊陽（現為博士生）和Md Sahidul Islam。
2020年初，新冠疫情爆發，對全球帶來嚴重衝擊，大量人群感染新冠病毒並發展成急性感染性肺炎。在中國，85%以上的新冠患者在接受西藥治療的同時接受中醫藥療法。研究團隊系統且全面地收集、總結和分析疫情初期使用中醫藥防治新冠肺炎的資料，為運用中醫藥防治新冠肺炎提供參考。
由於新冠病毒在流行病學、基因組學及病理機制方面與曾經流行的嚴重急性呼吸道症候群（SARS）有相同性，團隊在論文中也概括了中醫藥用於防治SARS病毒的經驗，期望有助治療新冠肺炎。此外，團隊概述了已發表的中醫藥抗病毒實驗室研究結果，深入討論一些可能具治療新冠作用的中藥成分及作用機理。團隊在論文中呼籲開展嚴格的臨床試驗及深入的實驗研究，以國際認可的科學方法研究中醫藥的療效，有助更安全和有效地運用中醫藥防治新冠肺炎。
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UM team’s article on traditional Chinese medicine treatment for COVID-19 patients ranks top in terms of citation frequency
A research team led by Chen Xin, director of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS), University of Macau (UM), has published an article titled ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Patients Infected with 2019-New Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): A Review and Perspective’, and the article has become the most cited SCI-indexed journal paper on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
As of 20 March 2023, the article has been cited 486 times in the Web of Science database, ranking first among papers on similar topics. It has also been cited 573 times in the Scopus database and 914 times in Google Scholar. In addition, the article is one of the highly cited papers in Web of Science and is among the top 1 per cent in terms of citation frequency in the field of Biology & Biochemistry.
The research team published this article in March 2020 in the prestigious international academic journal International Journal of Biological Sciences. The co-first authors of the paper are Yang Yang, a master’s student in ICMS (now a PhD student), and Md Sahidul Islam.
In early 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created a severe impact globally, with a large number of people infected with the virus developing acute respiratory distress syndrome. In China, more than 85 per cent of COVID-19 patients received traditional Chinese medicine treatment in addition to Western medicine treatment. The research team systematically and comprehensively collected, summarised, and analysed data on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in preventing and treating COVID-19 during the initial stage of the pandemic, which will serve as a reference for the use of traditional Chinese medicine in treating COVID-19 patients.
As the COVID-19 virus has similar epidemiological, genomic, and pathogenic mechanisms to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, the team also included the experience of using traditional Chinese medicine to prevent and treat the SARS virus in the paper in order to aid the treatment of COVID-19. In addition, based on published laboratory results of using traditional Chinese medicine in antiviral experiments, the paper discussed in-depth some components isolated from Chinese medicinal herbs that may come with potential therapeutic effects against COVID-19 and their mechanisms of action. In the paper, the team also calls for strict clinical trials and further experiments and research to study the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine with internationally-recognised scientific methodologies, which will help to promote the safe and effective use of traditional Chinese medicine in COVID-19 prevention and treatment.
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https://www.um.edu.mo/news-and-press-releases/campus-news/detail/55363/