An analysis for status of lung cancer translational research based on science citation index database
YING Qian
XIA Qingmin
DI Di
WANG Yuan
Abstract：Objective To investigate the status of translational research in lung cancer in the past decade .Methods The papers of lung cancer translational research from the Web of Science database were analyzed by bibliometrics methods .Results A total of 9 523 papers of translational medicine related lung cancer were indexed by science citation index ( SCI) from 2004 to 2014.The number of papers showed an upward trend .The top 10 countries were the United States , England , Germany, China, Canada, Italy, Japan, France, Netherlands and Australia .The top 20 research institutions were in the United States except Canada Toronto University .A total of 497 journals pos-ted more than 5 articles.Translational Research, Stem Cells Translational Medicine, PLoS One, Cts Clinical and Translational Science and Science Translational Medicine ranked the top 5 journals which issued a volume of more than 100 articles.Web of Science category showed that medicine research experimental ranked the first with accounting for 12.202%, oncology ranked second with accounting for 9.010%.Conclusion Basic research is still the focus of translational medicine , support for clinical research project must be strengthened , we truly achieve translational medicine applied in clinical treatment of lung cancer .
Keywords：Lung cancerTranslational medicineScience citation index
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 16-20 )