Mapping the current trends and hotspots of transcranial magnetic stimulation-based addiction treatment from 2001-2023: A bibliometric analysis

Table 1 The top 10 countries with the highest total citations for research on transcranial magnetic stimulation-based addiction treatment, published between 2001 and 2023 (ranked by average citations)

Rank	Country	Number of publications	Total number of citations	Average number of citations
1	Switzerland	1	280	280.0
2	Canada	10	1718	156.2
3	Israel	8	641	80.1
4	Germany	5	341	68.2
5	India	4	234	58.5
6	England	6	335	55.8
7	United States	43	1923	44.7
8	Belgium	10	388	38.8
9	Italy	29	638	22.0
10	China	40	539	13.5

Table 2 The top 10 most cited journals in the field of transcranial magnetic stimulation-based treatment of addiction, published from 2001 to 2023 (sorted by total number of citations)

Rank	Journal title	Frequency	Total citations	Average citation per paper	Impact factor (2023)	Country	JCR
1	Biological Psychiatry	7	769	109.86	9.6	United States	Q1
2	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	14	675	48.21	3.9	Switzerland	Q1
3	European Neuropsychopharmacology	3	378	126.00	6.1	United States	Q1
4	Frontiers in Psychiatry	5	288	57.60	3.2	Netherlands	Q2
5	Brain Stimulation	20	237	11.85	7.6	Switzerland	Q1
6	Neuropsychopharmacology	6	218	36.33	6.6	United States	Q1
7	Frontiers in Neuroscience	4	143	35.75	3.2	England	Q2
8	Addiction Biology	6	98	16.33	3.1	Switzerland	Q2
9	Addiction	6	69	11.50	5.2	England	Q1
10	Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research	3	57	19.00	3.0	United States	Q2

Table 3 The top 10 highly-cited references among 190 retrieved articles on transcranial magnetic stimulation-based treatment of addiction, published from 2001 to 2023 (sorted by citation frequency)

Rank	Title	First author	Journal	Year	Cited frequency	DOI
1	Rehabilitating the addicted brain with transcranial magnetic stimulation	Diana M	Nature Reviews Neuroscience	2017	32	10.1038/nrn.2017.113
2	Transcranial magnetic stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduces cocaine use: A pilot study	Terraneo A	European Neuropsychopharmacology	2016	28	10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.11.011
3	Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead	Ekhtiari H	Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews	2019	24	10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.06.007
4	Smoking cessation induced by deep repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the prefrontal and insular cortices: A prospective, randomized controlled trial	Dinur-Klein L	Biological Psychiatry	2014	19	10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.05.020
5	High frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for methamphetamine use disorders: A randomised clinical trial	Su H	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	2017	19	10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.01.037
6	10-Hz Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Heroin Cue Craving in Long-Term Addicts	Shen Y	Biological Psychiatry	2016	18	10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.02.006
7	Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on craving and substance consumption in patients with substance dependence: A systematic review and meta-analysis	Zhang JJQ	Addiction	2019	17	10.1111/add.14753
8	Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduces nicotine cue craving	Li XB	Biological Psychiatry	2013	17	10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.01.003
9	Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of substance addiction	Gorelick DA	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	2014	16	10.1111/nyas.12479
10	Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in alcohol dependence: A sham-controlled study	Mishra BR	Addiction	2010	15	10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009. 02777.x

Table 4 A summary of 10 clusters of references in publications about transcranial magnetic stimulation-based treatment of addiction

Cluster ID	Term	Size	Silhouette1
0	Dopamine hypothesis	99	0.882
1	Gambling disorder	77	0.795
2	Low frequency	56	0.91
3	Cigarette craving	45	0.926
4	Dopamine release	41	1
5	Alcohol-dependent patient	39	0.908
6	Relapse	31	1
7	Nicotine dependence	22	0.972
8	Caudate nucleus	22	1
9	Considering motor excitability	22	0.985

¹The Silhouette value of > 0.5 indicates that the clustering results are reliable.