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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021UGC-CAREPeer ReviewedISSN: 0972-2750Manuscript Received on –12 th August 2021Primary Reviewed on –26 th August 2021Peer Reviewed on –8 th September 2021Accepted for publication30 th September 2021Mapping and visualization of Scholarly Publications onCancer: A Bibliometric ReviewSamima Khatun & Dr Sibsankar JanaABSTRACT:Samima KhatunResearch Scholar (M.Phil)Department of Library andInformation ScienceUniversity of KalyaniWest Bengal, IndiaEmail:samima88khatun@gmail.comDr Sibsankar JanaAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Library &Information ScienceUniversity of KalyaniWest Bengal, IndiaEmail: sibs_jana@yahoo.comIntroduction: Treatment of cancer is a burning issue throughout the world and people arevery much worried about the development of a vaccine or medicine or reliable treatmentprocess in cancer. From primitive times and even now, thousands of scientists and doctorsare doing their research on it and are publishing their works every year across the globe.Purpose: Nowadays, it is essential to quantify various aspects of the scientific publicationsto judge the qualities as well as outcomes of it. The present study made an attempt toanalyse the scholarly publication on cancer using bibliometrics tools and techniques.Research problem: What are the present and future trends of the cancer researchpublications and the impact of the scientific publications on cancer is the main researchquestions to be solved in this paper.Objectives: Main objectives are to illustrate the authorship pattern and the degree ofcollaboration of the scholarly publication on cancer.Methodology: The data have been collected from the Web of Science (WoS) database. Forsearching the data, these keywords have been used i.e. "cancer" or "cancerous" or"carcinoma" or "carcinogen" or "Carcinogenic" or "leukaemia" or "lymphoma" or"malignancy" or "malignant growth" or "oncology" and time period covered form 1999 to2020. In this connection, a total of 2,780,830 data available on the web of science databaseas of 14th December 2020. Later we filtered these enormous amounts of data usingdocument type: article; access type: open access; publication place: India etc and ultimategot 19147 bibliographic data.Findings: It was found that 362 are single-authored papers and 18,785 articles by multiauthors(i.e. 133,562 authors). Total 16277 articles contributed by the Indian authors(14573 SCP and 1704 MCP), USA 1185 publications (14 SCP and 1171MCP), UnitedKingdom 182 (1 SCP and 181MCP), China164 (all are MCP), etc. Here, it is also provedthat medical science is the discipline where most of the authors publish their scientificproduction in a collaborative manner.KEYWORDS:Authorship Pattern; Bibliometrics Study; Cancer Research; CollaborativeResearch44https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lis
Khatun and Jana: Mapping and Visualization of …IntroductionCancer is one of the evil health hazards throughout theworld for ages. Cancer is such a danger that extended thescope of the human experience. In July 2016, the SouthAfrican Journal of Science published an article thatdescribed the evidence of cancer in a hominid fossil thatlived 1.7 million years back (Strauss, 2016). In 2017, aninternational team of researchers from the University ofGranadan, Spain, headed by Prof. MiguelCecilioBotellaLópez, Professor of the Department of LegalMedicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology,discovered two mummies with cancer those who were themembers of the Egyptian royal families. They conductedCT scan of both the mummies and analyzed breast cancer(Women) who died around 2000 B.C. and another (man)who died with multiple myelomas around 1800 B.C.(Science Daily, 2017). Even, many Egyptian and Greekphysicians mentioned cancer at various times in earlierliterature. So, cancer is an old enemy for humankind. Evennow, it has been deceiving human civilization with all itsmight. According to the National Cancer RegistryProgramme Report 2020 (Released by the Indian Councilof Medical Research (ICMR)), India’s cancer burden islikely 13.9 lakh in 2020 and it will 15.7 lakh in 2025. Thereport further states that the cases of breast cancer areincreasing and uterine cancer are decreasing (Sirun, 2020).According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of theEuropean Commission, the cancer burden is like toincrease in 2.7 million and 1.3 million deaths in theEuropean Union (EU) countries. Here also the femalebreast cancer is the commonly diagnosed cancer in the EU(Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 2020).Recently, the American Cancer Society Journal publisheda paper and presented that approximately 1.8 million newcases will be diagnosed and more than 6 lakh people willdie due to cancer in 2020 in the USA (American CancerSociety , 2020). According to the World HealthOrganization (WHO), one in every five people will bediagnosed with cancer in the future days. WHO alsomentioned in its Cancer Report 2020 that in 2018, theGlobal cancer burden was 18.1 million and 9.1 millionpeople died and it will likely to rise 29.4 million in2040(World Health Organization, 2020). So, it is widelybelieved that cancer is a deadly disease that has beenrampant all over the world. Simply, thousands of scientificarticles published every year on cancer research.Nowadays, it is essential to quantify various aspects of thescientific publication to judge the qualities as well asoutcomes of it. In this regard, bibliometrics analysis isessential to know the various aspects of the publication i.e.authorship pattern, collaboration, citations etc.Bibliometrics is an emerging tool for analyzing thestatistical and quantitative aspects of research publications.So, it is used to analyze to confirm the present and futuretrends of the research publications. Since the last decades,bibliometrics has been widely used to analyze the cancerresearch in various aspects i.e. application of medicine incancer treatment, cancer rehabilitation, Cancer Research inIndia, oncology research etc. Generally, cancer as well ascancer research is a hot topic among the researchers forpresent days. So, it is very interesting to represent thequalities and impact of the scientific publications oncancer. Therefore, the present study has made an attemptto mapping and visualizing the scholarly publication oncancer.Literature Review45https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lisA literature review is one of the important facets of anykind and type of research. It represents the past, present,and future of the study. Alan Pritchard, first used the termbibliometrics in 1969 in his paper entitled “StatisticalBiography or Bibliometrics?”. Actually, bibliometrics isthe combination of two terms i.e. Greek word “biblion”meaning book, and the German word “metron” meaningmeasure (Bibliometrics, 2018). According to Pritchard,bibliometrics is "The application of mathematics andstatistical methods to books and other media ofcommunication" (Pritchard, 1981). He also mentionedbibliometrics as “metrology of the information transferprocess and its purpose is analysis and control of theprocess” (Drake, 2003). In 1969 Fairthorne describedbibliometrics as “quantitative treatment of properties ofrecorded discourse and behaviour appearing to it.Bibliometric is also explained as quantitative analysis ofbibliographic features of body of literature”(Bibliometrics, 2018). Bibliometrics is used to measureresearch performance on the basis of two central elementsi.e. (i) A number of publications and (ii) Citation count.Statistical data on a number of publications mainlyrepresent the quantitative output of the scholarly activity.On the other hand, citation count reflects how many timescited the paper and by whom as well as it reflects theimpact factors of the journals (Diem & Wolter, 2013).Bibliometrics parameters are very important to assessacademic productivity. These parameters help to analyzeauthors ((publication count, citation count, h-index, h-index, e-index, g-index, etc.) and journals (impact factor,Eigenfactor, article influence score, SCImago journal rank,source-normalized impact per paper, etc.). The availablebibliometrics tools effectively help to assess academicproductivity, including readiness for promotions and otherawards. Moreover, bibliometric parameters are very mucheffective to evaluate the individual or groups of authors,institutions, and articles as well as journals also (Choudhri,Siddiqui, Khan, & Cohen, 2015). Velmurugan analysedthe authorship pattern and their collaboration of the Annalsof Library and Information Studies Journal. Herepresented a total of 203 articles published during 2007-2012. Out of 203 articles, 72(35.46 %) were singleauthoredand 131(64.54 %) articles were multiple-authoredcontributions. In the case of authors affiliation, authors of167 (82.26 %) articles from Academic Institutes and 12
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