Objective  To explore and summarize the research status and trends of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of respiratory tract infection based on bibliometrics, in order to provide references for the future research in this field.

Methods  Relevant literature in CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP and Web of Science was searched. VOSviewer and CiteSpace softwares were used to analyze the publication trends, co-occurrence of authors, institutions and keywords in this field.

Results  A total of 3 855 Chinese articles were included. The number of published papers was the highest in 2010 (n=243). A total of 605 authors and 470 institutions participated in the research on traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of respiratory tract infection. Moreover, most of the related researches in this field had been published in traditional Chinese medicine journals. The keywords formed 12 clusters, and the results of keyword emergence analysis showed that the current hot keywords in this field included acupoint application, immune function, inflammatory factors, data mining, etc.

Conclusion  The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in treating respiratory tract infection has always been the research focus in this field.  However, there is a lack of high-quality research in this field, and there is relatively little exchange and cooperation among authors across different institutions and regions. In the future, the quality of research should be improved on the basis of exchanging and enriching research contents.

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