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Spatiotemporal Hotspots of Study Areas in Research of Gastric Cancer in China Based on Web-Crawled Literature

Gastric cancer is a common malignancy worldwide and poses a serious threat to human public health. The difficulty in obtaining epidemiological data limits the development of cross-disciplinary related research. In this study, 99,364 publications on gastric cancer from 1991 to 2019 were obtained usin...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhen, Ren, Hongyan, Zhang, An, Zhuang, Dafang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920257
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083997
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author Wang, Zhen
Ren, Hongyan
Zhang, An
Zhuang, Dafang
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Zhang, An
Zhuang, Dafang
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description Gastric cancer is a common malignancy worldwide and poses a serious threat to human public health. The difficulty in obtaining epidemiological data limits the development of cross-disciplinary related research. In this study, 99,364 publications on gastric cancer from 1991 to 2019 were obtained using web-crawler technology, and a technical framework for extracting toponyms from these publications was constructed to analyze spatiotemporal hotspots of study areas in gastric cancer research in China. The results showed the following: (1) The accuracy of toponym extraction was greatly improved after eliminating the systematic exclusion words and adding historical toponyms, with a precision of 95.31% and a recall of 94.86%. (2) Gastric cancer research (GCR) and gastric cancer research with toponyms (GCRWT) are attracting increasing amounts of attention. The amount of GCR results published in Chinese and English is gradually leveling off, and the imbalance between those of GCRWT is gradually widening. (3) The spatial distribution of gastric cancer research in China is uneven, and the hotspots are mainly located in the eastern coastal areas. There were huge advances in gastric cancer research at the province/city/county scale in Eastern China, while the central region has only increased research at the county scale. We suggest that gastric cancer research should pay more attention to the central region, which has the highest gastric cancer incidence/mortality. This study provides important clues for research on and investigations of gastric cancer.
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spelling pubmed-80704572021-04-26 Spatiotemporal Hotspots of Study Areas in Research of Gastric Cancer in China Based on Web-Crawled Literature Wang, Zhen Ren, Hongyan Zhang, An Zhuang, Dafang Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Gastric cancer is a common malignancy worldwide and poses a serious threat to human public health. The difficulty in obtaining epidemiological data limits the development of cross-disciplinary related research. In this study, 99,364 publications on gastric cancer from 1991 to 2019 were obtained using web-crawler technology, and a technical framework for extracting toponyms from these publications was constructed to analyze spatiotemporal hotspots of study areas in gastric cancer research in China. The results showed the following: (1) The accuracy of toponym extraction was greatly improved after eliminating the systematic exclusion words and adding historical toponyms, with a precision of 95.31% and a recall of 94.86%. (2) Gastric cancer research (GCR) and gastric cancer research with toponyms (GCRWT) are attracting increasing amounts of attention. The amount of GCR results published in Chinese and English is gradually leveling off, and the imbalance between those of GCRWT is gradually widening. (3) The spatial distribution of gastric cancer research in China is uneven, and the hotspots are mainly located in the eastern coastal areas. There were huge advances in gastric cancer research at the province/city/county scale in Eastern China, while the central region has only increased research at the county scale. We suggest that gastric cancer research should pay more attention to the central region, which has the highest gastric cancer incidence/mortality. This study provides important clues for research on and investigations of gastric cancer. MDPI 2021-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8070457/ /pubmed/33920257 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083997 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Spatiotemporal Hotspots of Study Areas in Research of Gastric Cancer in China Based on Web-Crawled Literature
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title_short Spatiotemporal Hotspots of Study Areas in Research of Gastric Cancer in China Based on Web-Crawled Literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920257
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083997
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