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Scientometric Profile of Global Male Breast Cancer Research


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1 Department of Library and Information Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India
2 CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

An analysis of 4165 papers published during 2005-2014 on male breast cancer and indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded indicates that the publication output in this nascent field is increasing steadily. The output is scattered among 91 countries, and USA ranks first in the publication output as well as impact in terms of citations per paper (CPP) and relative citation impact (RCI). The global compound annual growth rate during the period of study is 6.2. Change in transformative activity index is highest for the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, impact of research output is low for PRC. The research output is highly scattered in terms of prolific institutions, authors and journals publishing research results. Most of the prolific institutions are located in USA. Among the prolific institutions, the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Massachusetts General Hospital (USA), and among authors the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Thompson D. from the University of Cambridge (England).

Keywords

Citation Analysis, Male Breast Cancer, Publication Output, Scientometric Assessment, Transformative Activity Index.
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Authors

Sandhya Dwivedi
Department of Library and Information Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India
K. C. Garg
CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India
H. N. Prasad
Department of Library and Information Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India

Abstract


An analysis of 4165 papers published during 2005-2014 on male breast cancer and indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded indicates that the publication output in this nascent field is increasing steadily. The output is scattered among 91 countries, and USA ranks first in the publication output as well as impact in terms of citations per paper (CPP) and relative citation impact (RCI). The global compound annual growth rate during the period of study is 6.2. Change in transformative activity index is highest for the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, impact of research output is low for PRC. The research output is highly scattered in terms of prolific institutions, authors and journals publishing research results. Most of the prolific institutions are located in USA. Among the prolific institutions, the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Massachusetts General Hospital (USA), and among authors the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Thompson D. from the University of Cambridge (England).

Keywords


Citation Analysis, Male Breast Cancer, Publication Output, Scientometric Assessment, Transformative Activity Index.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi09%2F1814-1821