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Introduction
Cancer is one of the evil health hazards throughout the
world for ages. Cancer is such a danger that extended the
scope of the human experience. In July 2016, the South
African Journal of Science published an article that
described the evidence of cancer in a hominid fossil that
lived 1.7 million years back (Strauss, 2016). In 2017, an
international team of researchers from the University of
Granadan, Spain, headed by Prof. Miguel
CecilioBotellaLópez, Professor of the Department of Legal
Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology,
discovered two mummies with cancer those who were the
members of the Egyptian royal families. They conducted
CT 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 Greek
physicians mentioned cancer at various times in earlier
literature. So, cancer is an old enemy for humankind. Even
now, it has been deceiving human civilization with all its
might. According to the National Cancer Registry
Programme Report 2020 (Released by the Indian Council
of Medical Research (ICMR)), India’s cancer burden is
likely 13.9 lakh in 2020 and it will 15.7 lakh in 2025. The
report further states that the cases of breast cancer are
increasing and uterine cancer are decreasing (Sirun, 2020).
According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the
European Commission, the cancer burden is like to
increase in 2.7 million and 1.3 million deaths in the
European Union (EU) countries. Here also the female
breast cancer is the commonly diagnosed cancer in the EU
(Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 2020).
Recently, the American Cancer Society Journal published
a paper and presented that approximately 1.8 million new
cases will be diagnosed and more than 6 lakh people will
die due to cancer in 2020 in the USA (American Cancer
Society , 2020). According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), one in every five people will be
diagnosed with cancer in the future days. WHO also
mentioned in its Cancer Report 2020 that in 2018, the
Global cancer burden was 18.1 million and 9.1 million
people died and it will likely to rise 29.4 million in
2040(World Health Organization, 2020). So, it is widely
believed that cancer is a deadly disease that has been
rampant all over the world. Simply, thousands of scientific
articles published every year on cancer research.
Nowadays, it is essential to quantify various aspects of the
scientific publication to judge the qualities as well as
outcomes of it. In this regard, bibliometrics analysis is
essential to know the various aspects of the publication i.e.
authorship pattern, collaboration, citations etc.
Bibliometrics is an emerging tool for analyzing the
statistical and quantitative aspects of research publications.
So, it is used to analyze to confirm the present and future
trends of the research publications. Since the last decades,
bibliometrics has been widely used to analyze the cancer
research in various aspects i.e. application of medicine in
cancer treatment, cancer rehabilitation, Cancer Research in
India, oncology research etc. Generally, cancer as well as
cancer research is a hot topic among the researchers for
present days. So, it is very interesting to represent the
qualities and impact of the scientific publications on
cancer. Therefore, the present study has made an attempt
to mapping and visualizing the scholarly publication on
cancer.
Literature Review
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A literature review is one of the important facets of any
kind and type of research. It represents the past, present,
and future of the study. Alan Pritchard, first used the term
bibliometrics in 1969 in his paper entitled “Statistical
Biography or Bibliometrics?”. Actually, bibliometrics is
the combination of two terms i.e. Greek word “biblion”
meaning book, and the German word “metron” meaning
measure (Bibliometrics, 2018). According to Pritchard,
bibliometrics is "The application of mathematics and
statistical methods to books and other media of
communication" (Pritchard, 1981). He also mentioned
bibliometrics as “metrology of the information transfer
process and its purpose is analysis and control of the
process” (Drake, 2003). In 1969 Fairthorne described
bibliometrics as “quantitative treatment of properties of
recorded discourse and behaviour appearing to it.
Bibliometric is also explained as quantitative analysis of
bibliographic features of body of literature”
(Bibliometrics, 2018). Bibliometrics is used to measure
research performance on the basis of two central elements
i.e. (i) A number of publications and (ii) Citation count.
Statistical data on a number of publications mainly
represent the quantitative output of the scholarly activity.
On the other hand, citation count reflects how many times
cited the paper and by whom as well as it reflects the
impact factors of the journals (Diem & Wolter, 2013).
Bibliometrics parameters are very important to assess
academic productivity. These parameters help to analyze
authors ((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 available
bibliometrics tools effectively help to assess academic
productivity, including readiness for promotions and other
awards. Moreover, bibliometric parameters are very much
effective to evaluate the individual or groups of authors,
institutions, and articles as well as journals also (Choudhri,
Siddiqui, Khan, & Cohen, 2015). Velmurugan analysed
the authorship pattern and their collaboration of the Annals
of Library and Information Studies Journal. He
represented a total of 203 articles published during 2007-
2012. Out of 203 articles, 72(35.46 %) were singleauthored
and 131(64.54 %) articles were multiple-authored
contributions. In the case of authors affiliation, authors of
167 (82.26 %) articles from Academic Institutes and 12