Oncology research in late twentieth century and turn of the century Portugal: a scientometric approach to its institutional and semantic dimensions

Brás, Oriana Rainho; Cointet, Jean‐Philippe; Cambrosio, Alberto; David, Leonor; Cardoso, Fátima; Jerónimo, Carmen

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2491-y

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“…Foley et al 23 performed an analysis of the 100 most cited articles in esophageal and junctional cancer. Bras et al 24 conducted a scientometric study of the oncology research produced by Portugal in the late 20th century. However, a detailed scientific analysis of the ICO research using bibliometrics and science mapping has yet to be undertaken.…”

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Production Trends, Collaboration, and Main Topics of the Integrative and Complementary Oncology Research Area: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Background: The prevalence of cancer has increased over time worldwide. Nevertheless, the number of deaths has been reduced during the past 2 decades. Thus, one-third of the cancer patients are users of complementary and alternative therapies, looking for other types of interventions. The main aim of the present study is to understand the current status of the research in integrative and complementary oncology. Three different aspects were analyzed: production trends, country collaboration, and leading research topics. Methods: The dataset was obtained from the documents indexed under the Integrative and Complementary Medicine category of the Web of Science database from 1976 to 2017. VOSviewer and SciMAT software were employed to perform the bibliometric analysis. Results: The Journal of Ethnopharmacology , China Medical University and the People’s Republic of China are the leading producers in the field. Regarding the collaboration, the United States and China present a close connection. The scientific community is focused on the following topics: apoptosis, breast cancer, oxidative stress, chemotherapy, and nuclear factor-Kappa-B (NF-Kappa-B). Conclusions: The present article shows potentially important information that allows understanding of the past, present, and future of research in integrative and complementary oncology. It is a useful evidence-based framework on which to base future research actions and academic directions.

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Production Trends, Collaboration, and Main Topics of the Integrative and Complementary Oncology Research Area: A Bibliometric Analysis

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“…Foley et al (2016) performed an analysis of the 100 most cited articles in esophageal and junctional cancer. Brás et al (2017) conducted a scientometric study of the oncology research produced by Portugal in the late twentieth century. However, a detailed scientific analysis of CRS and CAM therapies using science mapping has yet to be undertaken.…”

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Thematic Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Applied in Cancer-Related Symptoms

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et al. 2018

Journal of Data and Information Science

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Purpose:The main goal of this study is to discover the scientific evolution of Cancer-Related Symptoms in Complementary and Alternative Medicine research area, analyzing the articles indexed in the Web of Science database from 1980 to 2013.Design/Methodology/Approach: A co-word science mapping analysis is performed under a longitudinal framework (1980 to 2013). The documental corpus is divided into two subperiods, 1980-2008 and 2009-2013. Thus, the performance and impact rates, and conceptual evolution of the research field are shown.Findings: According to the results, the co-word analysis allows us to identify 12 main thematic areas in this emerging research field: anxiety, survivors and palliative care, meditation, treatment, symptoms and cancer types, postmenopause, cancer pain, low back pain, herbal medicine, children, depression and insomnia, inflammation mediators, and lymphedema. The different research lines are identified according to the main thematic areas, centered fundamentally on anxiety and suffering prevention. The scientific community can use this information to identify where the interest is focused and make decisions in different ways.Research limitation: Several limitations can be addressed: 1) some of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies may not have been included; 2) only the documents indexed in Web of Science are analyzed; and 3) the thematic areas detected could change if another dataset was considered. Practical implications:The results obtained in the present study could be considered as an evidence-based framework in which future studies could be built.Originality/value: Currently, there are no studies that show the thematic evolution of this research area.

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“…Our findings contribute to a lack of evidence for Indonesia, and more broadly LMICs, regarding the extent and diversity of publications relating to cancer research. There has been a limited number of bibliometric analyses of national cancer research activities published, largely focussed on specific cancer types from Portugal and Peru, 16,17 with country-level analyses identified for Iraq and Iran, 18,19 and those mapping research across wider regions including Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation and Central Asia. 20 Aligned with previous research, 20 our study indicated that research outputs reflected the national cancer burden for Indonesia.…”

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Mapping and Visualization of Cancer Research in Indonesia: A Scientometric Analysis

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Introduction The incidence of cancer and its prevalence are increasing in Indonesia. It is crucial to ensure national cancer policies are evidence-based and promote research. While cancer research is being conducted across Indonesia, the extent and focus of research activities are not known, with no existing synthesis of the cancer research landscape. We seek to address this gap by characterising trends in the extent and types of cancer research conducted in Indonesia. Methods Scientometric study using descriptive analyses to determine annual growth patterns in publications across all cancer research literature from Indonesia. We developed a classification system for both research type and study design which was applied to all included publications. A visualisation software tool (VOSviewer) was used to explore the geographical distribution of research activity. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to determine the influence of international collaboration on the impact factor of journals in which articles were published. Results We retrieved 1773 cancer-related articles published by Indonesia-affiliated authors from 1961 to 2020, with notable year-on-year increases in the annual total number of published articles since 2015. Most articles (84.0%) were published by authors affiliated with institutions on Java Island. The most commonly published article type was basic research and discovery science (28.8%), using a one-group analytical study design (28.8%). International collaboration was significantly correlated with a higher h-index of the journal in which research was published (P < .0001, r = .317). Conclusion An increase in the number and range of topics explored in cancer-related publications over time was identified. The summary of the current corpus of cancer-related research for Indonesia can be used to direct the development of the national cancer control plan alongside informing the national cancer research strategy. Our novel and feasible scientometric approach can be used to direct future national and regional mapping of cancer research.

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Oncology research in late twentieth century and turn of the century Portugal: a scientometric approach to its institutional and semantic dimensions

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Production Trends, Collaboration, and Main Topics of the Integrative and Complementary Oncology Research Area: A Bibliometric Analysis

Production Trends, Collaboration, and Main Topics of the Integrative and Complementary Oncology Research Area: A Bibliometric Analysis

Thematic Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Applied in Cancer-Related Symptoms

Mapping and Visualization of Cancer Research in Indonesia: A Scientometric Analysis

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