Worldwide Productivity and Research Trend of Publications Concerning Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain: A Bibliometric Study

Shengjie Yang; Weijuan Tan; Xiao Ma; Lu Qi; Xinghe Wang

doi:10.2147/JPR.S378119

Worldwide Productivity and Research Trend of Publications Concerning Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain: A Bibliometric Study

J Pain Res. 2022 Sep 8:15:2747-2759. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S378119. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Shengjie Yang^#¹, Weijuan Tan^#¹, Xiao Ma², Lu Qi¹, Xinghe Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Phase I Clinical Trial Center, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100038, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Surgery Medicine, Zhangqiu People's Hospital, Jinan, 250200, People's Republic of China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Cancer-related neuropathic pain is a common adverse effect in the process of cancer development and treatment and has gradually attracted the attention of researchers. The purpose of this article is to systematically review the articles on cancer-related neuropathic pain published between 2012 and 2021 and visualize the data through CiteSpace and R software. The results show that in the past 10 years, a total of 5715 articles have been published, involving 118 categories, of which the most is Clinical Neurology, followed by Neurosciences, Pharmacology Pharmacy. The country with the most published articles is the United States, followed by China and Italy. A total of 22,228 authors were involved in the study of cancer-related neuropathic pain. These historical opinions about cancer-related neuropathic pain could be an important practical basis for further research into potential development trends.

Keywords: author; bibliometric; cancer; country; institution; neuropathic pain.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Project (Z211100002521011) and National Science and Technology Major Project (2017ZX09304026).