A bibliometric analysis of metastatic breast cancer: two-decade report (2002-2022).

ABSTRACT:

Background

MBC is a lethal form of breast cancer that arises when cancer cells invade other organs or tissues. The treatment of MBC needs personalized approaches based on the tumor and patient characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to analyze MBC studies from 2002 to 2022 using bibliometrics and to investigate its current situation, main contributors, core journals, highly cited papers, and topic evolution.

Materials and methods

We retrieved data from Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). Bibliometric analysis of the included literatures mainly used the following tools: the function of "analyze results" and "citation report" in WoS, Microsoft excel 2021, CiteSpace v.6.1. R6, VOSviewer v.1.6.18, BICOMB v.2.04 and gCLUTO v.1.0.

Results

We found 12,653 articles

SUBMITTER: Jiang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484517 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature