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Brachytherapy - Head & neck, skin, eye

ESTRO 2024

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Hotspots and bridges in head-and-neck brachytherapy research (2013-2023): a scientometric analysis

Warren Bacorro 1,2,3 , Catherine Escuadra 4,5 , Carl Jay Jainar 1 , Janella Ann Javenrie Calapit 6 , Marjorie Mae Cua 3,6 , Michael Benedict Mejia 1 1 University of Santo Tomas Hospital - Benavides Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Manila, Philippines. 2 University of Santo Tomas - Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Manila, Philippines. 3 Manila Doctors Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Manila, Philippines. 4 University of Santo Tomas - College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy, Manila, Philippines. 5 Ewha Womans University, Department of Education, Seoul, Korea, Republic of. 6 Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Manila, Philippines

Purpose/Objective:

In the past decade, the emergence of new, effective external radiotherapy techniques limited the application and usage of brachytherapy in head-and-neck (HN) cancers, thereby posing a challenge to effectiveness research, dosimetry, modeling and technique innovation. Conversely, informatics and communications technology allowed for broader inter-institutional collaboration and quicker research dissemination. Altmetrics papers have been published on literature about brachytherapy in general (1) and for cervical cancer (2). We conducted a scientometric analysis to characterize HN brachytherapy research themes and trends in the past decade to understand its generation, dissemination and usage, and inform research strategies and collaboration.

Material/Methods:

We systematically mined data from health sciences-related publications from the Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed using the keywords “brachytherapy” AND “head-and-neck cancer.” Results were refined to include only primary and review articles in English, published from 2013 onwards. We excluded records with incomplete data and duplicates.

The analysis was divided into publication, citation, collaboration, and text co-occurrence network analysis. R Studio, MS Excel, and VOS Viewer were used for data management, analysis, and visualization.

Results:

We identified 164 research articles and reviews related to HN brachytherapy. The publications were mostly in Brachytherapy (n=34), Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy (n=30), Frontiers in Oncology (n=8), Head and Neck (n=6) and Radiotherapy and Oncology (n=5). Publication and citation . The average annual number of publications was 16, which is 1% of 1600, that for brachytherapy in general [1]. The average citation was 12.52 ±19.43, with an h-index of 24. Table 1 summarizes the top countries of origin of authors and publications.