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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río

On-line version ISSN 1561-3194

Abstract

HERNANDEZ-CUETARA, Lourdes; GONZALEZ-ARGOTE, Javier  and  VITON-CASTILLO, Adrián Alejandro. Trends, collaboration and impact of scientific production on oral cancer in the Web of Science. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.3, e5013.  Epub May 01, 2021. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction:

oncological diseases, including oral cancer, are the object of study of various institutions; for this reason it is necessary to analyze the behavior of this published science.

Objective:

to analyze the scientific production on oral cancer in the Web of Science in the period 2000 to 2020.

Methods:

a bibliometric study of the articles on oral cancer published in the Core Collections of Web of Science was conducted. The co-occurrence matrices for the analysis of the networks were pre-processed in Bibexel, and VOSviewer v1.6.15 was used its analysis. Visibility, impact and cooperation indicators were analyzed.

Results:

the documents analyzed (10349), where 76,50 % were original articles. The citations received were 198 302, for an average of 19, 9 citations per article. The variation rate in terms of the number of articles was 82,91 %. Publications written in English language reached 98,96 %. The United States was the most productive country, with 23,92 %. The documents were published in 1416 resources and signed by 5160 institutions; at least 138 collaborated on one article.

Conclusions:

there is an increasing interest in research on oral cancer, concentrated in a small number of countries which exhibit genuine leadership capabilities in this field. Progress was evidenced in terms of international collaboration. The analysis of the co-occurrence of terms reflects the interest of the international scientific community in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this disease at a global level.

Keywords : MOUTH NEOPLASMS; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; COLLABORATION INDICATOR; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION INDICATORS; IMPACT FACTOR; MOUTH DISEASES.

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