ArticleCancers2022
A Machine-Learning-Based Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Literature on Anal Cancer.
Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optimising chemoradiotherapy in anal cancer.ESMO gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Review
- Biological features of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus-a deep dive review.ESMO gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Review
- Innovative radiotherapy approaches.ESMO gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Review
- International consensus to define outcomes for trials of chemoradiotherapy for anal cancer (CORMAC-2): defining the outcomes from the CORMAC core outcome set.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Review
- Electron beam radiotherapy for the management of squamous cell carcinoma of the anal margin.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2024Article
- More than Five Decades of Proton Therapy: A Bibliometric Overview of the Scientific Literature.Cancers · 2023Article
- Breast cancer radiation therapy: A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature.Clinical and translational radiation oncology · 2023Article
- Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Detection-A Bibliometric Analysis and Avenues for Future Research.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Review
- A systematic review of progress on hepatocellular carcinoma research over the past 30 years: a machine-learning-based bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- Using Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery: A Bibliometric Study and Future Research Agenda.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Discovering Thematically Coherent Biomedical Documents Using Contextualized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers-Based Clustering.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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14 authors at 12 institutions in 10 countries.
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Abstract
Squamous-cell carcinoma of the anus (ASCC) is a rare disease. Barriers have been encountered to conduct clinical and translational research in this setting. Despite this, ASCC has been a prime example of collaboration amongst researchers. We performed a bibliometric analysis of ASCC-related literature of the last 20 years, exploring common patterns in research, tracking collaboration and identifying gaps. The electronic Scopus database was searched using the keywords "anal cancer", to include manuscripts published in English, between 2000 and 2020. Data analysis was performed using R-Studio 0.98.1091 software. A machine-learning bibliometric method was applied. The bibliometrix R package was used. A total of 2322 scientific documents was found. The average annual growth rate in publication was around 40% during 2000-2020. The five most productive countries were United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), France, Italy and Australia. The USA and UK had the greatest link strength of international collaboration (22.6% and 19.0%). Two main clusters of keywords for published research were identified: (a) prevention and screening and (b) overall management. Emerging topics included imaging, biomarkers and patient-reported outcomes. Further efforts are required to increase collaboration and funding to sustain future research in the setting of ASCC.
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