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. 2024 Feb 5;86(3):1522-1530.
doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000001771. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Global research productivity of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder: a bibliometric study

Badi Rawashdeh  1 , Saif Aldeen AlRyalat  2 , Aasem Rawshdeh  3 , Mohammad Abuassi  4 , Zeina Al-Mansour  5 , Ashraf El-Hinnawi  5
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Global research productivity of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder: a bibliometric study

Badi Rawashdeh et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). .

Abstract

Background: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative diseases (PTLD) are a heterogeneous collection of neoplasms that occur after solid organ transplants (SOT). In the past 20 years, there has been a rise in PTLD research. This study aims to investigate the global research output and interest regarding PTLD using a bibliometric approach.

Material and methods: On 28 November 2022, the Web of Science Core Collection documents on PTLD published between 2000 and 2022 were collected and analyzed using bibliometric techniques. The VOSviewer application was utilized to visualize the annual number of publications, authors, organizations, countries, published journals, citations, and most occurring keywords.

Results: A total of 2814 documents were retrieved, and a screening process included 1809 documents. The total number of citations was 45 239, and the average number per item was 25. Most articles (n = 747) and citations (n = 25 740) were produced in the United States. Based on citations, most of the top 10 institutions that contributed were in the United States of America. The University of Pittsburgh topped the list with 2700 citations and 64 articles. The vast majority of articles were published in Pediatric Transplantation (n = 147), Transplantation (n = 124), and the American Journal of Transplantation (n = 98). Transplantation has received the most citations, 6499, followed by the American Journal of Transplantation with 5958 citations and Blood with 4107 citations.

Conclusion: With ongoing debates over optimal classification, Epstein-Bar virus involvement, and treatment, this topic has received significant interest from researchers in recent years. Our results can be used as a guide for future research in the field and as a framework for a more in-depth look at the scientific progress of PTLD.

Keywords: PTLD; bibliometric study; post-Transplant lymphoproliferative disorder; transplantation.

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Flow chart of search results.
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease publication trends from 2000 to 2022, the y-axis refers to the number of documents per year on the right, and the number of citations on the left.
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A network map showing most-cited countries involved in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease research.
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A network map showing most-cited institutions involved in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease research.
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Figure 5
A network map showing most-cited academic Journals publishing research on post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease research.
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Figure 6
Most occurrence key words visualization. Each circle represents a keyword, and the size of the circles represents the frequency of occurrence. Larger circles indicate that the keyword appears more frequently. Keywords included in the same cluster are displayed in the same colour. The distance between the two circles shows the degree of the relationship.
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