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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2021

Status Quo and Research Trends of Craniopharyngioma Research: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analyses (From 2011 to 2020).

Tianhua Li, Anming Yang, Guangjie Liu, Shisheng Zou, Yiguang Chen, Bowen Ni, Yi Liu, Jun Fan

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Case-based review: Craniopharyngioma treated with intracystic peginterferon.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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  16. Studies Related to Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Past 10 Years (2011-2020): A Bibliometric Analysis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2022
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8 authors.

Tianhua LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Anming YangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Guangjie LiuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Shisheng ZouDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Yiguang ChenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Bowen NiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Yi LiuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Jun FanDepartment of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCraniopharyngioma (CP) is a challenging intracranial tumor due to its special hypothalamus-pituitary location. Each patient with CP should be evaluated and treated separately. Exploring novel methods of automatized analysis of data for gaining knowledge on any medical field is an encouraging task, particularly in such an extremely challenging tumor as CP. We aim to summary the situations, investigate the research trends and evaluate research hotspots using bibliometric analysis for the CP research.

methodsWe extracted all the CP-related literatures from 2011 to 2020 from the Web of Science database. An Online analysis platform of literature metrology (Bibliometric), BICOMB, gCLUTO and CiteSpace softwares were used to do bibliometric analysis. As a supplement, we also analyzed the top 100 cited case reports with particular and certainly infrequent information to improve the analysis.

resultsAccording to our retrieval strategy, we found a total of 1262 CP-related literatures. The United States has maintained a leading position in global CP research, followed by China and Germany. Among institutions, Capital Med Univ, St Jude Childrens Res Hosp and Southern Med Univ rank in the top 3 in terms of the number of articles published. "WORLD NEUROSURGERY" is the most popular journal for CP-related research. Moreover, MULLER HL, MERCHANT TE, QI ST and others have made great achievements in the study of CP. Finally, we did biclustering analysis on keywords and identified 4 CP research hotspot clusters.

conclusionsOur research provides a comprehensive analysis of the scientific progress of CP in the past 10 years, and insight into the development of CP research field, highlight research trends over time, and help identify valuable future directions.

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