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Original Article | Open Access

Knowledge domain and emerging trends in brachytherapy: A scientometric analysis

Arash Ghazbani1, Mohammad Abdolahi2, Mohammad Javad Mansourzadeh3, Reza BasirianJahromi4, Sina Behzadipour1, Anali Mohseni Azad5, Bardia Talebzadeh6, Abdolrasoul Khosravi4, Ali Hamidi4 ( )
Student Research Committee, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Paramedicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Paramedicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Faculty of Pharmacy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Abstract

Objective

Assessing the current scientific situation helps to recognize the gaps and strengths of brachytherapy research projects. This research project was conducted to assess the knowledge domain and emerging trends in brachytherapy through a scientometric perspective.

Methods

For the present research, the Web of Science database was considered as the data source. Integrated data was transferred to Bibliometrix R Package V3.1. In this study, the scientometric approach was performed by CiteSpace 5.8.R3 to draw the trends and signify issues in the research area. Eventually, scientometric indicators were evaluated at the level of authors, documents, journals, organizations, and countries.

Results

A total of 31,362 documents from 64,740 Independent researchers were retrieved. The United States, Germany, and Canada were the most active countries in brachytherapy-related research projects. In the present study, Luc Beaulieu, Christine Kirisits, and Ronald Nath were identified as the most influential authors. Eventually, keywords clusters were constructed by using the method of co-citation analysis. In this case, the main clusters were cervical cancer and prostate cancer.

Conclusion

Assessing the scientific trends in brachytherapy indicated that new insights have been gained into this cancer treatment technique. In this case, development of computer applications and artificial intelligence alongside deep learning utilization provides new horizons for oncology and radiotherapy researchers.

Keywords

radiotherapybibliometricsco-citation networkscollaboration networksradioisotope plaquescientometrics

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Precision Radiation Oncology
Volume 6 Issue 3,
September 2022
Pages 243-256
DOI: 10.1002/pro6.1171
Cite this article:
Ghazbani A, Abdolahi M, Mansourzadeh MJ, et al. Knowledge domain and emerging trends in brachytherapy: A scientometric analysis. Precision Radiation Oncology, 2022, 6(3): 243-256. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro6.1171

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Received: 08 July 2022
Revised: 09 August 2022
Accepted: 16 August 2022
Published: 14 September 2022
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