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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
(5.92%) from Special Institutions. The Ranges for the
degree of collaboration for the journal of Annals of
Library and Information Studies is 0.57 to 0.82 for the
year 2007-2012 (Velmurugan, 2013). Patra &
Bhattacharya analysed the cancer research in India where
they downloaded 6408 articles from 686 journals from the
Pub Med database. This study clearly showing that the
cancer research in India is increasing, with a marginal
decrease in the year 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2003.
Authorship pattern shows a close conformity with the
original Lotka’s law, where 58.59% of Indian authors have
single publication, 14.97% publish two articles, 7.72%
publish three articles. 19 most productive authors are
identified who had published more than 50 articles (Patra
& Bhattacharya, 2005). Cancer is a global burden and the
proportion of all deaths due to cancer has increased
steadily over the past few years: 7.3% in 2011, 7.8% in
2012 and 8.3% in 2013. According to the most recent
South African National Cancer Registry statistics, there
were 55 385 new cancer cases in 2008, with an age
standardised incidence rate of 113.2 and 101.1 per 100 000
in males and females, respectively (Moodley, Singh,
Kagina, Abdullahi, & Hussey, 2015).
Objectives of the study
The present study has been conducted to achieve the
following objectives
broaden the search to include maximum results on cancer
research. In this connection, a total of 2,780,830 data
available on the web of science databaseas of 14th
December 2020.
This is an enormous amount of data. Therefore, data have
been filtered primarily on the basis of “Document Type”
i.e. Article (1,689,099), and then it has been filtered on the
basis of “country.” For the present study, only “Indian”
publications have been selected. This is also a huge
number of publications. Finally, the data have been filtered
on the basis of “Open Access” and a total of 19231 data
available in the WoS as open access publication. After
downloading all the required data, again it is filtered in the
biblioshiny platform, and a total of 84 early accessed
articles excluded and finally, 19147 articles have been
considered for the present study.
Lastly, the analysis of data is much more important to
represent the real value of cancer research in society. To
analyze the data, some bibliometrics tools have been used
i.e. BibExcel (BibExcel , 2017), VOSviewer (VOSviewer,
2021), biblioshiny (biblioshiny, 2016), etc.
Data Analysis and Result
1 Annual Scientific Productions
i. To illustrate the authorship pattern of the
scholarly publication on cancer
ii. To identify the most productive author
iii. To identify the degree of collaboration
Methodology
A threefold methodology has been adopted for the present
study. Firstly, the selection of a topic is very much
important and that should be judicious. So, in the selection
of a topic, we emphasized such a topic that has a realistic
value in society, and that can give a real picture of present
research and development. In this regard, cancer is a
burning issue throughout the world and all people are very
much worried about the development of vaccines or
medicine or reliable treatment process in cancer. So, if we
can analyse the research and development on cancer as
well as the scientific publication on it and represent the
present status, it will be helpful for researchers as well as
general people.
Figure1: Annual scientific production on cancer
Figure 1 represents the annual scientific production on
cancer. It is clearly showing the scientific production of
cancer from the year 1999 to 2020. In this period, the
highest number of scientific articles published in the year
2019 i.e. 2211and the second-highest articles produced in
the year 2018 i.e. 2180 and respectively 2017 (2162), 2016
(2060), 2015 (1932), 2014 (1772), 2020 (1699),
2013(1311), 2012 (1013) and so. Here, the lowest number
of articles published in the year 2001 is 33.
Another important issue is the collection of data. For the
collection of data, various databases have been consulted
and purposefully data have been collected from the Web of
Science (WoS) database. For searching 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 to 2020. Here “or” operator is used to
2 Top 20 Prolific Authors
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Table 1 and figure 2 show the top 20 authors in the field of
cancer research in Indian journals. Here, the top authors
have been measured based on their number of
contributions in the journals over time. S. Kumar is the top
author who published a total of 416 articles in various
Indian journals on cancer research.