Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Comorbidity of Cancer and Pain

Cheng-Cheng Wu; Yi-Zu Wang; Hao-Yu Hu; Xue-Qiang Wang

doi:10.2147/JPR.S291741

Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Comorbidity of Cancer and Pain

J Pain Res. 2021 Jan 28:14:213-228. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S291741. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Cheng-Cheng Wu^#¹, Yi-Zu Wang^#¹, Hao-Yu Hu¹, Xue-Qiang Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sport Rehabilitation, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shanghai Shangti Orthopaedic Hospital, Shanghai, 200438, People's Republic of China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Background: Pain is the most common symptom in patients with neoplasm. It is a distressing experience that seriously destructs the quality-of-life of patients, with a high prevalence in clinical observations. However, only a few studies have applied bibliometric methods to analyze systematic works on the comorbidity of cancer and pain.

Purpose: The aim of this work was to conduct a systematic analysis of the scientific studies worldwide on the comorbidity of cancer and pain in 2010-2019.

Methods: The Web of Science databases were searched for publications related to the comorbidity of cancer and pain from 2010 to 2019.

Results: A total of 3,423 papers met the inclusion criteria in this research. The increase in the quantity of papers presented a significant growth from 2010 to 2019 (P<0.001) by linear regression analysis. The research subject categories of the 3,423 papers mainly concentrated on oncology (28.57%), clinical neurology (25.62%), and healthcare science services (15.89%). The US had the highest number of published papers, followed by the People's Republic of China, and England. According to scientific statistics, breast cancer (20.36%) was by far the most predominant topic in the papers related to the comorbidity of cancer and pain.

Conclusion: This bibliometric research provided a framework for visual and quantitative research to management scholars in favor of exploring a potential field related to hot issue and research frontiers.

Keywords: CiteSpace; cancer; global trend; pain.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Shanghai Key Lab of Human Performance (Shanghai University of Sport) (11DZ2261100); The scientific and technological research program of the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (Fund number: 19080503100).