Global Research Trends on Surgery in Uterine Cervical Neoplasms: A Bibliometric Analysis via CiteSpace

Abstract

Objectives: To identify the cooperation of authors, countries, institutions and explore the hot topics’ prospects regarding research of surgical procedure in uterine cervical neoplasms.Methods: Publications on research of surgical treatment of uterine cervical neoplasms were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). Bibliometric analysis were performed by CiteSpace software. Visualized network maps were performed to evaluate the collaborations between different authors, countries, institutions, and keywords.Results: A total of 1381 articles related to study were identified. An increasing number of publications were observed from 2006 to 2022, and the number of publications were over 100 in 2020 and 2021. Gynecologic Oncology (715 times) was the most co-cited journal. Active collaborations among the top authors were observed. Scambia G(17 papers) was the top most productive authors and Ramirez PT with the largest numbers of citations (155 co-citations) in this field during the past decades. The USA was the leading contributor in this field with 342papers. Active cooperation between countries and between institutions was observed. The main hot topics in the last three years included matters related to uterine cervical neoplasms, quality of life (QoL), guideline, and gynecologic surgical procedure.Conclusion: This study provides a comprehensive overview of surgery in uterine cervical neoplasms, allowing relevant authors and research teams to recognize the current research status in this field and provide a reference for formulating future research directions as well.