A Scientometric Visualization of 32 Years of Leukemia Research in India

ABSTRACT

A scientometric study examines the publication’s quantitative and qualitative trends in a particular research area. The present study investigates 2,854 leukemia research outputs of India published from 1989 to 2020, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database. Software, including bibliometrix Biblioshiny, BibExcel, HistCite and VOSviewer, have been used for data analysis. The Pediatric Blood & Cancer journal has the highest number of published articles. The USA collaborated with the highest number of publications with India. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences had the maximum number of publications. Bakshi S, Sharma A and Varma N were the leading authors of publications about leukemia research in India. Keyword analysis revealed that acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia and apoptosis were the main research hotspots in the area in all publications. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India and the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA, were the major funders in the leukemia research publications in India. The limitation of the study is that the data used is entirely dependent on the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database. So, the quality of the study is entirely dependent on the input information imported from the WoS database.

KEYWORDS:

• Biblioshiny
• cancer
• India
• leukemia
• scientometric
• Web of Science

Acknowledgments

Gyanajeet Yumnam is a recipient of the Indian Council of Social Science Research Doctoral Fellowship. His article is primarily an outcome of his doctoral work sponsored by ICSSR, Government of India. The responsibility for the facts stated, opinions expressed, and conclusions drawn is entire to the author’s knowledge. The author sincerely thanks the ICSSR for awarding the “Doctoral Fellowship.”

Authors contributions

Gyanajeet Yumnam: Conceptualization, Methodology, Data collection, Writing-Original Draft, Review & Editing, Data Visualization, Formal Analysis; Ch. Ibohal Singh: Supervision, Validation, Review & Editing.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data supporting this study’s findings are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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It is to state and declare that all the authors have seen and approved the submitted manuscript. The article is the original work of the authors. It is not under consideration for publication or submitted for publication, nor has it been published in whole or in part elsewhere.

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Funding

Funding was provided by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Government of India [Grant No.: RFD/2021-22/GEN/LIB/345].