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. 2020 Jun;26(3):e12845.
doi: 10.1111/ijn.12845. Epub 2020 May 13.

Bibliometric analysis of breast cancer research in the period 2009-2018

İlgun Özen Çınar  1
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Bibliometric analysis of breast cancer research in the period 2009-2018

İlgun Özen Çınar. Int J Nurs Pract. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of breast cancer studies in the field of nursing conducted between 2009 and 2018 and to reveal the trends, dynamics and scientific outputs in the field.

Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed using CiteSpace II software to determine the characteristics of research incorporated in the international citation indexes and published in breast cancer research in the context of nursing studies. In the Web of Science database, the subjects of breast cancer and nursing were selected, and a total of 2,734 articles published in the last decade were reviewed.

Results: There was an increase in the number of publications after 2014. The United States had the highest level of country collaborations and the highest degree of centrality. The most densely researched topic in the largest subject cluster was breast cancer. The most commonly used keywords were breast cancer, quality of life and women.

Conclusion: Breast cancer research in the field of nursing has increased in the last decade, and the United States ranked first in terms of publications in this nursing field.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; breast cancer; nursing.

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