Global cervical cancer research: a scientometric density equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis
- Cervical cancer has caused substantial morbidity and mortality for millions of women over the past decades. While enormous progress has been made in diagnosis, prevention and therapy, the disease is still fatal for many women—especially in low-income countries. Since no detailed studies are available on the worldwide research landscape, we here investigated the global scientific output related to this cancer type by an established protocol. The “New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science” platform assessed all relevant cervical cancer research published in the Web of Science since 1900. A detailed analysis was conducted including country-specific research productivity, indicators for scientific quality, and relation of research activity to socioeconomic and epidemiologic figures. Visualization of data was generated by the use of density equalizing map projections. Our approach identified 22,185 articles specifically related to cervical cancer. From a global viewpoint, the United States of America was the dominating country in absolute numbers, being followed by China and Japan. By contrast, the European countries Sweden, Austria, and Norway were positioned first when the research activity was related to the population number. When the scientific productivity was related to annual cervical cancer cases, Scandinavian countries (Finland #1, Sweden #4, Norway #5, Denmark #7), the Alpine countries Austria (#2) and Switzerland (#6), and the Netherlands (#3) were leading the field. Density equalizing mapping visualized that large parts of Africa and South America were almost invisible regarding the global participation in cervical cancer research. Our data documented that worldwide cervical cancer research activity is continuously increasing but is imbalanced from a global viewpoint. Also, the study indicated that global and public health aspects should be strengthened in cervical carcinoma research in order to empower more countries to take part in international research activities.
Author: | Dörthe BrüggmannORCiDGND, Kathrin Quinkert-SchmolkeGND, Jenny M. Jaque, David QuarcooORCiDGND, Michael K. BohlmannGND, Doris KlingelhöferORCiD, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627090 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261503 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Parent Title (English): | PLOS ONE |
Publisher: | PLOS |
Place of publication: | San Francisco, California, US |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/01/06 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/01/06 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2024/02/20 |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1, art. e0261503 |
Article Number: | e0261503 |
Page Number: | 21 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 21 |
Note: | Data Availability Statement: The data used in the study are owned by the Web of Science, we are not allowed to share the downloaded datasets publicly or privately. But any researcher can obtain a license (http://apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=C2F5xMA57aI8oMJ8QZE&referencesSaved=) to gain access to the Web of Science and enter the search term described in the paper to download the respective data set. The authors had no special access privileges to the data others would not have. |
Institutes: | Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |