Mouth Cancer Research: A Quantitative Analysis of World Publications, 2003-12

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of 37049 world papers in mouth cancer, indexed in Scopus database during 2003-12, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 5.15 % and citation impact of 9.72. The 15 most productive countries account for 88.14 % share in world output, with largest share (26.79 %) coming from USA, followed by Japan (9.31 %), UK (7.58 %), Germany (5.82 %), Italy (5.60 %), China (4.98 %), India (4.94 %), etc., during 2003-12. Eight out of 20 countries have achieved relative citation index above 1–France (1.74), Australia (1.58), Netherlands (1.55), Canada (1.43), USA (1.33k), Germany (1.21), UK (1.16), Italy (1.06), and Spain (1.05) during 2003-12. Medicine contributed the largest share (82.72 %) among subjects, followed by biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (29.33 %), dentistry (14.36 %), pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics (8.36 %), immunology & microbiology (1.90 %), etc during 2003-12. In cancer site, tongue, salivary glands and oropharynx contributed the largest share of 12.04 %, 10.02 % and 8.44 % respectively during 2003-12. Squamous cell carcinoma contributed the largest share of 27.20 % among types of mouth cancer research, followed by lymphomas (12.72 %), salivary gland carcinoma (10.02 %), and melanoma (3.36 %) etc during 2003-12. Surgery contributed the largest share (15.77 %) among treatment methods used, followed by chemotherapy (14.99 %), diagnosis (13.20 %), radiotherapy (12.86 %), pathology (12.48 %), etc. during 2003-12. Among several organisations, authors and journals, the top 20 contributed 14.1 %, 4.27 %, and 23.16 % share respectively during 2003-12.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.34.7341