The recent landscape of cancer research worldwide: a bibliometric and network analysis.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to map the scientific landscape related to cancer research worldwide between 2012 and 2017. We use scientific publication data from Web of Science Core Collection and combine bibliometrics and social network analysis techniques to identify the most relevant journals, research areas, countries and research organizations in cancer scientific landscape. The results show: Oncotarget as the journal with most publications; a significant increase in China's publications, reaching United States' publications in 2017; MD Cancer Center, University of California and Harvard University as organizations with most publications; cell biology as the most frequent research area; breast, lung and colorectal cancer as the most frequent keywords; high density of co-authorship between

SUBMITTER: Cabral BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078146 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature