1. Performance of Cancer Research in Taiwan
Yu-Ting Feng1#, I-Hsin Lin1, Wen-Ta Chiu2,3 and Yuh-Shan Ho4*
1School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University
2Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University
3Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
4Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
Introduction
Cancer has been the first leading cause of deaths in Taiwan since The ages of patients with cancer are found to be declined year by year. According to the statistics of the Department of Health (DOH) , there are approximately forty-five thousand people suffered from cancers in the year of 2001 and is increasing in Taiwan . Most of the patients are found in late stage of the disease when diagnosed and are destined to death of no effective treatments. Evaluating the performance of each research topic is necessary in order to indicate the impact of and contribution of authors to their respective fields. Our purpose was to study the cancer research of Taiwan performance based on 9537 documents published in Science Citation Index (SCI)-indexed periodicals between 1991 and These documents were analyzed and evaluated according to publication distribution and were used to determine the quantitative characteristics of cancer research.
Methods
Documents used in this study were based on the databases of the SCI which was accessed from the ISI Web of Science. Cancer and carcinoma were used as keywords to search titles, abstracts, and keywords.
Results
Table 4. Fifteen most productive author institutes
Table 1. Regions distribution of International collaborative publications
Table 2. Top ten of subject category
Table 3. Top ten of author keyword used
Figure 1. Number of articles between 1991 and 2005
Conclusions
A quadratic and logarithmic relation between yearly cumulative number of publications and the year were obtained for the 2 periods from 1991 to 1994 and 1994 to 2004.
Three most regions of international collaborative countries were ‘Taiwan’, ‘USA’, and ‘Japan’ from 1991 to 2005.
Five most used author keywords were ‘apoptosis’, ‘hepatocellular carcinoma’, ‘nasopharyngeal carcinoma’, ‘duodenal ulcer’, and ‘peptic ulcer’ from 1991 to 2005.
Three most of subject category were ‘Oncology’, ‘Surgery’, and ‘Biochemistry & Molecular Biology’ from 1991 to 2005.
‘Natl Taiwan Uni Hosp’, ‘Natl Taiwan Uni’, ‘Chang Gung Mem Hosp’ were the three most author’s institutes from 1991 to 2005.