SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES CONTRIBUTIONS TO WEB OF SCIENCE ON UTERUS CANCER

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1 International Journal of Library & Information Science (IJLIS) Volume 5, Issue 2, May Aug 2016, pp , Article ID: IJLIS_05_02_007 Available online at Journal Impact Factor (2016): (Calculated by GISI) ISSN Print: and ISSN Online: IAEME Publication SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES CONTRIBUTIONS TO WEB OF SCIENCE ON UTERUS CANCER Dr. Padmamma. S Professor & Chairperson Dept. of Library and Information Science Kuvempu University, Shimogga, India Dr. R.H.Walmiki Librarian (I.C) University Library, Kuvempu University, Shimogga, India ABSTRACT Cancer of the uterus is a increasing and one of the dangerous diseases for women. The paper covered cause of cancer of the uterus is unknown; also enlist some factors which seem to increase a woman s risk. Paper particularly concentrated about scientometric on the records indexed in the web of Science database during the period i.e. for 10 years on Uterus Cancer. The researcher s analysed the research publication that has been published only on Uterus Cancer disease and retrieved 3,197 records. Methodology of this study was downloaded articles from the Web of Science database; the search term used was Uterus Cancer and considered as central keyword of the topic discussed. Each record contains English language abstract with the bibliographic information, e.g. author, name of journal, author address, affiliation, keywords, and cited items etc. the downloaded data was analyzed for source items to find out the research trend. The downloaded data has been stored in MS-Excel files for further analysis. Objectives of the work has been done under the growth of scholarly publications, ranked list of journals, form wise distribution of records, authorship pattern & authors productivity, country-wise productivity, Year wise Distribution of etc. Key words: Uterus Cancer, Causes of Cancer, Citation Analyses, Scientometric, and Collaborative Research 57 editor@iaeme.com

2 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki Cite this Article Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki, Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer. International Journal of Library & Information Science, 5(2), 2016, pp INTRODUCTIONS Citation analysis is an indirect to assess the information/source used by various categories of users. Citation analysis is a worthwhile area of research and links of references in one text to another text, with information on where that text can be found. Citation analysis is useful for understanding the subject relationships, authorship pattern, and publication trends and so on. With citation analysis are can evaluate and interpret citations received by Articles, institutions, and other indications of scientific activity. Citation analysis is a major area of Bibliometrics research, which uses various methods of citation analysis to establish relationships between Authors and their work. In this study 3,197 citations appended to Uterus Cancer Articles in Web of Science Collected to ascertain in the authorship patterns along with calculation of degree of collaboration, type of literature, ranking of journals, time Span, and geography, etc. 2. Uterus Cancer The Cancer of the uterus is cancer that begins from abnormal cells in the lining of the uterus (endometrium) or the muscle tissue (myometrium). 3. Risk factors of the Cancer The exact cause of cancer of the uterus is unknown, but some factors seem to increase a woman s risk: being aged over 50 Being postmenopausal Endometrial hyperplasia, a benign condition that occurs when the endometrium grows too thick Never having children or being infertile Starting periods early (before age 12) Reaching menopause late (after age 55) Having high blood pressure (hypertension) Having diabetes Being overweight or obese A family history of ovarian, uterine, breast or bowel cancer Previous ovarian tumours, or polycystic ovary syndrome Taking oestrogen hormone replacement without progesterone previous pelvic radiation for cancer Taking tamoxifen to treat breast cancer. The risk of uterine cancer is usually outweighed by the benefits of treating breast cancer. Many women who have risk factors don t develop cancer of the uterus, and some women who do get cancer have no risk factors editor@iaeme.com

3 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer According to Charles Patrick Davis The uterus is a hollow organ in females located in the pelvis, commonly called the womb. The uterus functions to support fetal development until birth. 4. TREATMENT OF UTERUS CANCER 1. Treatment options may include one or more of the following: surgery, radiation, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy. Treatment depends on the cancer stage with stage IV as the most extensive and usually caused by the most aggressive type of cancer cells. 2. Surgical therapy usually involves removal of the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, adjacent lymph nodes, and part of the vagina. 3. Radiation therapy may be by external radiation or by internal radiation (brachytherapy). 4. Chemotherapy usually requires IV administration of drugs designed to kill cancer cells. 5. Hormone therapy (usually progesterone) is used on cancer cells that require another hormone (estrogen) for growth. 5. WHAT IS SCIENTOMETRIC? Scientometric is the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation. In practice, scientometric is often done using bibliometrics which is a measurement of the impact of (scientific) publications. Modern scientometric is mostly based on the work of Derek J. de Solla Price and Eugene Garfield. The latter founded the Institute for Scientific Information which is heavily used for scientometric analysis. Methods of research include qualitative, quantitative and computational approaches. 6. NEED FOR THE STUDY Evaluation is necessary in all aspects of our lives by which one can measure things, activities, and processes. Librarians, researchers and teaching community should enumerate and evaluate the research is trend in their field of interest. The main foci of studies have been on growth of scholarly publications, journal rankings, assessing the influence of top scholarly articles, Collaboration of Authors work, Rank list of Journals, Form-wise, Language-wise, Year-wise contribution of Journals, year-wise distribution of records, Country-wise distribution of records, Major areas of Uterus Cancer (subject-wise distribution) Area-wise Uterus Cancer is one of the important issues of citation analysis. It helps to know the distribution of citation among the sub branches and allied subjects of uterus cancer besides to know the research trend in uterus cancer. Study also helps to decision makers while developing library acquisition and collection. 7. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The objectives of the present study are to: Test the growth of scholarly publications in Uterus Cancer research indexed in Web of Science. Prepare a ranked list of journals published Uterus Cancer research indexed in Web of Science during the year To examine form wise distribution of records indexed in. WOS editor@iaeme.com

4 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki To examine the authorship pattern & authors productivity. To examine country-wise productivity. To trace the geographical dies. 8. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY The present study is based on the records indexed in the web of Science database during the period i.e. for 10 years. The researcher tried to analysis the research publication that has been published on Uterus Cancer disease and data collected from Web of Science database. 9. METHODOLOGY The data for this study was downloaded from the Web of Science database. For downloading the data, the search term used was Uterus Cancer. This may be considered as central keyword of the topic discussed. Therefore, the maximum retrieval may be expected by using this term. A total 3,197 unique records spanning over the year has been downloaded and saved. Each record contains English language abstract with the bibliographic information, e.g. author, name of journal, author address, affiliation, keywords, and cited items etc. the downloaded data was analyzed for source items to find out the research trend. The downloaded data has been stored in MS-Excel files for further analysis. 10. DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION Data Collected and study analyzed is to get the desired objectives. Various statistical techniques are used for analysis, tabular representations and graphical representations to make the data more meaningful and Data has been presented in the Following Extent of Collaborative Research One of the main objectives of this study is to identify the number of articles contributed by authors in the field of Medical Science Particularly Uterus Cancer. The study of authorship patterns Helps to assess the contributions of the Authors. Table.1 Extent of collaborative research Sl. No. No. of Author No of articles Cumulative Articles Percentage cumulative 1 Single author Two Author Three Author Four Author Five Author Six Author Seven Author Anonymous Total editor@iaeme.com

5 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer Extent of collabarative research Collaboration of Research of authorship pattern from 3197 articles has been shows out of that the least 4.47% and 8.38% articles have been contributed by Single and two authors respectively. The more number of articles are contributed by five authors, six authors and anonymous are 13.29, and respectively shown in the figure. It indicates that the multi author s works are more than that of single authors and anonymous articles are double than the multi author s contributions in this field Form wise Distribution of Study finds the form wise distribution of citations and cited literature used on the uterus cancer of researchers and is analyzed and also helps to understand use of the forms for their research works. Table 2 Form wise Distribution of Sl.No Document Type Cumulative Percentage Cumulative 1 Articles Review Proceedings Paper Editorial Material Meeting Abstract Book chapter Letter Biographical Item Reprint Total Majority of them used journal articles (2,652) with covered (83.95%) of the overall used articles, followed by review (9.84%) and proceedings papers (2.58%) the researchers preferred from Journals editor@iaeme.com

6 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki Language wise distribution of Language is significant medium to disseminate the scientific productivity in any subject area. Therefore researcher tried to know the language in which author preferred to publish. Study shows various languages of publications such as English, German, Thailand, and Greek etc., are depicts in the below table. Sl.No. Languages 1 English 2 German 3 Thailand 4 Greek 5 Polish 6 French 7 Icelandic 8 Japanese 9 others Total Table 3 Language wise distribution of Cumulative Percentage Cumulative Languages The highest communication language is English and articles published 78.98% in English language very high in number. Where as published by German language is second highest that is (4.75%) followed by Thailand language (3.75%) is the next preferred language Country wise distribution of records To find out the counties which are contributing the higher contribution in any given field, of the study and analysis helps to identify the research trend in different countries. It is also helpful in identifying the countries active in a subject field and their related contribution editor@iaeme.com

7 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer Sl. No. Country 1 United States 2 Canada 3 Germany 4 Thailand 5 Australia 6 United Kingdom 7 Greece 8 Poland 9 Ireland 10 France 11 Switzerland 12 Others To Total Table 4 Country wise distribution of records No of Cumulative Percentage Cumulative Country wise distribution of records The table-4 highlights the country wise distribution of records. It reveals that large numbers of records are published by USA 325(10.17%) followed by Canada.252 (7.88%) is the Second Highest, Germany, Thailand, Australia, UK and Greece are Produced, 232, 190, 159, and140 Remaining countries are Produced less than 102 records Major areas of uterus cancer Subject wise distribution of citation is helps to know the distribution of citation among the sub branches and allied subjects of uterus cancer besides to know the research trend in uterus cancer. The major branches of uterus cancer are presented in the following Table editor@iaeme.com

8 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki Sl. Research areas no. 1 Oncology 2 Obstetrics 3 Radiology nuclear me 4 Pathology 5 Reproductive 6 Endocrinology 7 Cell biology 8 Petrology 9 pharmacy 10 Public environmental 11 others 12 total Table 5 Major areas of uterus cancer No of Cumulative records Percentage Cumulative edicine l health Study area wise; distribution The table -5 indicates the area of study related to uterus cancer and it is observed that oncology records in the Highest number 902(28.21%) records in the field of oncology followed by obstetrics with obstetrics records.805(25.18%) records Radiology nuclear medicine records 284(8.88%)and pathology records 210(6.57%) records and Reproductivee got4th place with 216(6.76%) of records. The remaining areas have less than 200, Year wise Distribution of Year wise distribution of publication is an important indicator of publication productivity shows growth every year. It is clearly covered form 2006 to editor@iaeme.com

9 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer Table 6 Year wise Distribution of Sl. No. Year Cumulative Percentage Cumulative % Total Year wise Distribution of From the 11 years of the publications the highest number of records in the year 2014 was most productive with 434(13.58%) followed by 2013 with 366 (11.45%) publications, the year 2012,2008, and 2010 have 11.01, 10.23, 9.79, 9.42, 9.38 respectively in the diagram. Remaining years 2011, 2007 and 2006 have the less number that is 8% of publications Country wise contribution of Journals Articles To identifying the research trend in different contraries, and also indentifying the countries and their contributions shows their interest and contributions of the particular subject editor@iaeme.com

10 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki Table 7 Country wise contribution of Journals Articles Sl. No of Cumulative Country name Rank no records Percentage Cumulative% 1 united states United kingdom Canada Germany Thailand Australia Greece Poland Ireland France Netherlands Switzerland Spain south Korea South Africa Croatia Japan China India Brazil others total During the year 2006-to2016 were by 20 countries from all over the world listed, among that the large number of journals are contributed by United States with 1029 (32.19%) journals articles, followed by united kingdom with 536 (16.77%) journals articles and Canada with 420 (13.14%) journal articles are published Country wise contribution of journals Articles editor@iaeme.com

11 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer Germany and Thailand with 365(11.425) and 205(6.41%) articles, and the remaining countries are contributed very less number that is below 4% only. Overall among the 20 countries the authors of the United States are interested to write articles more number in the field of cancer Rank list of journals Researchers are used Journals according to the availability of the needy articles and preferred Journals. Accordingly they have to give the reference also. The analysis of citations should reflect the priority given by the researchers to the journals. This is helps to library to select the journals and coverage new important most used journals and articles in the library with the help of references. Table 8 Represent a rank list of most frequently journals in uterus cancer. Sl. no Name of the journals Rank Country No of the Percentage Cumulative 1 Gynecologic Oncology 1 USA International Journal Of Gynecological Cancer 1 USA European Journal Of Gynecological Oncology 2 Canada Archives Of Gynecology And Obstetrics 3 Germany International Journal Of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 4 USA Plos One 4 USA Asian Pacific Journal Of Cancer Prevention 5 Thailand Fertility And Sterility 5 USA International Journal Of Gynecological Pathology 6 USA Journal Of Steroid Biochemistry And Molecular Biology 6 USA Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology Research 7 UK International Journal Of Cancer 7 Australia American Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology 7 USA Bmc Cancer 8 USA Endocrinology 8 UK Geburtshilfe Und Frauenheilkunde 8 USA European Journal Of Cancer 9 Germany Menopause-The Journal Of The North American Menopause 9 UK Society 19 Biology Of Reproduction 10 UK Molecular Endocrinology 10 USA Anticancer Research 11 USA editor@iaeme.com

12 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki Sl. no Name of the journals Rank Country No of the Percentage Cumulative 22 British Journal Of Cancer 11 Greece Reproductive Sciences 12 UK European Journal Of Obstetrics Gynecology And Reproductive 13 USA Biology 25 GinecologiaPolska 13 Poland Maturities 13 Ireland Molecular Human Reproduction 14 UK Cancer 15 USA Taiwanese Journal Of Obstetrics & Gynecology 15 USA American Journal Of Surgical Pathology 15 France Bulletin Du Cancer 16 UK Climacteric 16 USA Clinical Nuclear Medicine 17 USA Journal Of Clinical Oncology 17 Netherlands Journal Of Minimally Invasive Gynecology 18 Greece Oncology Letters 18 UK Annals Of Oncology 19 UK Gynecological Endocrinology 20 USA Obstetrics And Gynecology 21 UK Reproduction 21 USA Brach therapy 22 Germane European Radiology 22 USA Ultrasound In Obstetrics & Gynecology 23 Greece Acts Radiological 24 UK Breast Cancer Research And Treatment 25 USA Cancer Research 26 USA Cochrane Database Of Systematic Reviews 27 UK Gynecologic And Obstetric Investigation 28 Switzerland Gynecology Obstetrique& Fertility 29 UK Human Reproduction 30 UK Molecular And Cellular Ireland 12 Endocrinology Obstetrics & Gynecology Science. Obstetrics & Gynecology Science 32 USA Oncology 33 France Annals of 34 USA editor@iaeme.com

13 Scientometric Analysis of Articles Contributions To Web of Science on Uterus Cancer Sl. no Name of the journals Rank Country No of the Percentage Cumulative Surgical Oncology 56 Cancer Causes & Control 35 France Others Total It reveals that The Journal Gynecologic Oncology got first rank and which is published in united states followed by International Journal Of Gynecological Cancer and it is published in united kingdom and they cited more number of times, percentage shows (3.88%) and (3.88%) citations respectively. Rank list of Journals 1, , , , , , , , , 1 11, , , , , , , , , 18, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 40, , , , , , , 51, , , , , , , , , , 0 54, , , , 0.41 The European Journal of Gynecological Oncology got second rank and Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Germany have the 3 rd rank with 1.25%. International Journal of Radiation 4 th, Oncology 5 th, Plos One (1.22%) and Asian pacific Journal of cancer prevention have 1.33% and got the 6 th and 7 th rank of the cited Journals respectively in the table. The journals fertility and sterility and International Journal of Gynecological Pathology and journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology united states of America stand with (1%), (0.95%) and (0.93%) of citations.respectively. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research 11 th place of the ranking (0.90%) of citations. The last 50 th rank journal is Human reproduction, it is clearly indicates that journal of gynecologic oncology was the most used journals among other country journals to published on the uterus cancer research editor@iaeme.com

14 Dr. Padmamma. S and Dr. R.H.Walmiki 11. CONCLUSION The Citation analysis made on the topic Uterus Cancer articles under the headings of Author Collaborative research, Language wise, Form wise, Country wise output, Major areas of Uterus Cancer, Year wise, country-wise contributions of Journals, Number of Articles from Journals and Rank list of Journals are analyses. The more number of articles are contributed by five and six authors and anonymous articles are more than those of multi authors. Overall majority of the researcher used journal articles (2,652) with covered (83.95%) and 78.98% of the articles were published in English language only. The large numbers of records are published by USA, followed by Canada, and the highest number 902(28.21%) records covered in the field of oncology. Among the 10 years the year 2014 is published number of records and was most productive with 434(13.58%). The large numbers of journals are contributed by United States with 1029 journals articles and among the Journals the Gynecologic Oncology got first rank and which is published in United States. REFERENCES [1] [2] [3] Leydesdorff, L. and Milojevic, S., Scientometrics arxiv: (2013), forthcoming in: Lynch, M. (editor), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences subsection (2015) [4] De Solla Price, D., editorial statement. Scientometrics 1(1) 1978 [5] Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Moody, Gregory D.; Gaskin, James; Galletta, Dennis F.; Humpherys, Sean; Barlow, Jordan B.; and Wilson, David W. (2013). [6] Belikov, A.V.; Belikov, V.V. 2015, A citation-based, author- and age-normalized, logarithmic index for evaluation of individual researchers independently of publication counts. F1000Research 4: 884. DOI: /f1000research [7] Lane, J, Assessing the Impact of Science Funding. Science Volume 324 (2009) [8] S. Aruna, L.V. Nandakishore and Dr S.P. Rajagopalan, A Novel LNS Semi Supervised Learning Algorithm For Detecting Breast Cancer. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 3(1), 2012, pp [9] K.Jeyanthi and M.Vasuky, Artifact Removal For The Detection of Breast Cancer. International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering & Technology, 6(4), 2015, pp.1 7. [10] Amel H. Abbas, Aryan A. Kareem and Mohammed Y. Kamil, Breast Cancer Image Segmentation Using Morphological Operations. International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering & Technology, 6(4), 2015, pp [11] Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Humphreys, Sean; Malwitz, Jason; and Nix, Joshua C. (2007). A scientometric study of the perceived quality of business and technical communication journals, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 50(4), pp editor@iaeme.com

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