Breast cancer research output, 1945-2008: a bibliometric and density-equalizing analysis
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- 22 December 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Breast Cancer Research
- Vol. 12 (6), R108
- https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr2795
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women, with an estimated 194,280 new cases diagnosed in the United States in 2009 alone. The primary aim of this work was to provide an in-depth evaluation of research yield in breast cancer from 1945 to 2008, using large-scale data analysis, the employment of bibliometric indicators of production and quality, and density-equalizing mapping.Keywords
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