A world map of esophagus cancer research : a critical accounting
- Background: Esophageal cancer (EC) is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide. The contemporary strong increase of the adenocarcinomas in Western countries and the high mortality rates require the intensification of prospective multinational studies. Methods: Therefore, this global health issue has been chosen for the bibliometric review of the global publication output. As source for meta and citation data, the Web of Science has been used and Density Equalizing Maps were applied for visualization. Results: 17,387 articles on EC could be identified. The years with publication and citation maxima correspond to the appearance of the most prolific articles. China is the most publishing country, followed by Japan and the USA. Germany and the UK ranked 4th and 5th. The analysis of the ratios articles and socio-economic parameters emphasizes the leading position of the Scandinavian countries and Japan. Here, the high-income countries come out on top. The high incidence regions are mainly represented by Chinese and Japanese research. The association of the publication output and the overall research funding could be shown. Conclusions: A strengthened international network increasingly consisting of the scientifically best positioned countries as well as more of the high incidence countries worldwide is mandatory for future research. The findings deliver scientists, clinicians and decision makers backgrounds for future decisions all over the world.
Author: | Doris KlingelhöferORCiD, Yun Zhu, Markus BraunORCiD, Dörthe BrüggmannORCiDGND, Norman SchöffelGND, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-502519 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-019-1902-7 |
ISSN: | 1479-5876 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31077194 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of translational medicine |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/05/10 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/05/13 |
Tag: | Adenocarcinoma; Cancer epidemiology; Disease burden; Funding; Incidence; Research trends |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1, Art. 150 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 14 |
Note: | Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 450688380 |
Institutes: | Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie / Biochemie und Chemie |
Medizin / Medizin | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |