Exploration of research topics and visualization of knowledge domain of citation science on differentiated thyroid cancer / 中华内分泌外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To summarize the core research topics of the literature on differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) , and to analyze the citation status to form the knowledge domain of citation science.Methods:Web of Science was used to search the literature on DTC, which was limited to April 04, 2021. The published records on DTC were identified. VOSviewer 1.6.11 and CiteSpace 5.5.R2 software were used to cluster and visualize the knowledge domain of citation.Results:A total of 8, 629 records on DTC were obtained, including 87, 973 citations, which showed that the publication volume increased year by year. Moreover, the trend of the annual records became more significant after the year of 2005. Meanwhile, it was reported that clinical staging and surgical management, as well as clinical researches on targeted therapy drugs, were treated as the currently hot research topics. The data showed that 115 records were cited more than 100 times, and 14 cited more than 300 times. And two records had been cited more than 1,000 times. Furthermore, the publication year of top15 were from 1988 to 2016, which also illustrated that the development of DTC researches were relatively slow before 2006. And the annual publication volume of DTC increased significantly with the publication of four highly cited records in 2006, even three with which have 1,000 citations. And the results revealed that the Consensus and Clinical Guidelines on DTC issued by ATA, as well as targeted therapy and radioactive 131I therapy on DTC had been highly cited. However, the newer highly cited documents on surgical treatment of DTC were still lacking. Conclusions:The current hot topics on DTC are focused on clinical staging, surgical management and targeted therapy. And a high-quality clinical guidelines and consensus and RCTs of targeted drugs on DTC have a significant impact on its development. Moreover, the further researches need to pay more attention to persistent/recurrent and metastatic DTC.