Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics
Date Submitted: Jun 29, 2020
Date Accepted: Oct 25, 2020
Analysis of the Trends in Publications on Clinical Cancer Research in Mainland China from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database
ABSTRACT
Background:
The application of China's big data sector in cancer research is just the beginning. In recent decades, more and more Chinese scholars have used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database for clinical cancer research. A comprehensive bibliometric study is required to analyze the tendency of Chinese scholars for clinical cancer research and provide a reference for the future of big data analysis.
Objective:
Our study aimed to assess the trend of publications on clinical cancer research in mainland China from the SEER database.
Methods:
We retrieved the publications indexed in PubMed regarding the data from the SEER database in mainland China.
Results:
Papers based on SEER data, which were authored by investigators in mainland China came to 964 until 1 September 2019. Over the past years, significant growth in studies based on the SEER database was observed (P<0.05). Breast cancer was the most frequently studied cancer site, followed by colorectal cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer (excluding colorectal cancer), and genital system cancer. More than 80% of publications were published in the eastern coastal region of China, and Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center was the most active center. Overall, 184 journals were analyzed in this study, and Oncotarget was the most contributed journal (n=137). A total of 347 (36.0%) of the publications were published in the second quartile (Q2), followed by Q3 (25.4%), Q1 (24.1%), unknown Journal Citation Reports rank (10.2%), and Q4(4.1%).
Conclusions:
Clinical cancer research based on the SEER database in mainland China underwent constant and rapid growth during recent years. High-quality and comprehensive cancer databases depending on our demographic features, are urgently needed.
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