Endometrial cancer: mapping the global landscape of research
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Endometrial cancer: mapping the global landscape of research Dörthe Brüggmann1,2* , Katja Ouassou2, Doris Klingelhöfer2, Michael K. Bohlmann3, Jenny Jaque4 and David A. Groneberg2
Abstract Background: From a global viewpoint, endometrial cancer belongs to the most common female cancers. Despite the heavy burden of diseases and numerous unanswered questions, no detailed pictures of the global structure of endometrial cancer research are available so far. Therefore, this malignancy was reviewed using the New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science (NewQIS) protocol. Methods: Using NewQIS, we identified endometrial carcinoma related research published in the Web of Science from 1900–2015 (P1) and from 2016–2020 (P2). Item analysis was performed with regard to research activity. Also, semi-qualitative aspects and socio-economic benchmarks were visualized using density equalizing mapping. Results: In total, 9,141 from 1900–2015 and 4,593 from 2016–2020 endometrial cancer related studies were identified with the USA having the largest numbers of publications, citations, institutions, as well as the highest countryspecific h-Index concerning endometrial cancer research in both periods. In contrast to other fields of cancer research, the two East Asian countries Japan and China followed concerning total research activities until 2015. From 2016 until 2020, China was found in short distance to the USA and was ranked second. In the socio-economic analysis, European countries were in prominent positions. Greece published 579.83 endometrial carcinoma-related articles per billion US-$ GDP, Finland (527.29), Sweden (494.65), Israel (493.75), and Norway (367.85) followed in the ranking. Density equalizing mapping visualized that large parts of Africa, Asia and South America with a high burden of disease played almost no visible role in the endometrial cancer research activities. Conclusions: Endometrial cancer research activity is continuously increasing from a global viewpoint. However, the majority of original articles is published by authors based in high-income countries. Together with the finding that the research field of public health does only play a minimal role, our study points to the necessity that global health aspects should be introduced to endometrial cancer research. Keywords: Endometrial carcinoma, Density equalizing mapping, Socio-economic analysis Background As stated by the FIGO platform Global Library of Women’s Medicine, endometrial cancer is a common gynecologic malignancy affecting hundreds of thousands of women globally [1]. In 2018 more than 382,000 new cases *Correspondence: prevention@uni‑frankfurt.de 1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Goethe-University, Theodor‑Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
were diagnosed, and nearly 90,000 women died worldwide from the disease (https://gco.iarc.fr/today/data/ factsheets/cancers/24-Corpus-uteri-fact-sheet.pdf).
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