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SynthesisFrontiers in medicine2020

Bibliometric Analysis of ATAC-Seq and Its Use in Cancer Biology via Nucleic Acid Detection.

Yu Zhao, Xianwen Zhang, Zhenhua Song, Danian Wei, Hong Wang, Wei Chen, Guodong Sun, Weiying Ma, Kebing Chen

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Synthesis in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yu ZhaoDepartment of Hematology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Xianwen ZhangSchool of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
Zhenhua SongGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Disease, Department of Treatment Center for Traumatic Injuries, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Academy of Orthopedics of Guangdong Province), Guangzhou, China.
Danian WeiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Disease, Department of Treatment Center for Traumatic Injuries, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Academy of Orthopedics of Guangdong Province), Guangzhou, China.
Hong WangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Disease, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Wei ChenGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Disease, Department of Musculoskeletal Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Academy of Orthopedics of Guangdong Province), Guangzhou, China.
Guodong SunDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Weiying MaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Kebing ChenGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degeneration Disease, Department of Spine Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Academy of Orthopedics of Guangdong Province), Guangzhou, China.
Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University · CNChengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University · CNSun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) is associated with significant progress in biological research and has attracted increasing attention. However, the impact of ATAC-seq on cancer biology has not been objectively analyzed. We categorized 440 ATAC-seq publications according to the publication date, type, field, and country. R 3.6.2 was used to analyze the distribution of research fields. VOSviewer was used for country co-authorship and author co-authorship analyses, and GraphPad Prism 8 was used for correlation analyses of the factors that may affect the number of articles published in different countries. We found that ATAC-seq plays roles in carcinogenesis, anticancer immunity, targeted therapy, and metastasis risk predictions and is most frequently used in studies of leukemia among all types of cancer. We found a significantly strong correlation between the top 10 countries in terms of the number of publications and the gross expenditure on research and development (R&D), the number of universities, and the number of researchers. At present, ATAC-seq technology is undergoing a period of rapid development, making it inseparable from the emphasis and investment in scientific research by many countries. Collectively, ATAC-seq has advantages in the study of the cancer mechanisms because it can detect nucleic acids and thus has good application prospects in the field of cancer, especially in leukemia studies. As a country's economic strength increases and the emphasis on scientific research deepens, ATAC-seq will definitely play a more significant role in the field of cancer biology.

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ATAC-seqbibliometric analysiscancer biologyleukemiaopen chromatin

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PMID33224964
PMCPMC7670091
OpenAlexW3095616276

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