Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions

Hadid, Majed; Elomri, Adel; Mekkawy, Tarek El; Kerbache, Laoucine; Omri, Abdelfatteh El; Omri, Halima El; Taha, Ruba; Hamad, Anas; Thani, Mohammed Hamad J. Al

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“…When the main topic of each paper is considered, papers providing a general and classical bibliometric analysis of the pain literature (Group A) represented three-quarters (143 papers, 75.7%) of all the papers; those aimed at highlighting pitfalls in the publishing process (Group B) constituted 16.9% or 32 of the papers analyzed; and the rest in Group C (14 papers, 7.4%) are miscellaneous papers with objectives other than those in Groups A or B. Some general information is presented for each topic and for each publication (in chronological order) in Tables 2, 3-Group A, Table 4-Group B, and Table 5-Group C.…”

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Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

Robert

Wilson²

2023

Front. Pain Res.

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During the last decades, the emergence of Bibliometrics and the progress in Pain research have led to a proliferation of bibliometric studies on the medical and scientific literature of pain (B/P). This study charts the evolution of the B/P literature published during the last 30 years. Using various searching techniques, 189 B/P studies published from 1993 to August 2022 were collected for analysis—half were published since 2018. Most of the selected B/P publications use classic bibliometric analysis of Pain in toto, while some focus on specific types of Pain with Headache/Migraine, Low Back Pain, Chronic Pain, and Cancer Pain dominating. Each study is characterized by the origin (geographical, economical, institutional, …) and the medical/scientific context over a specified time span to provide a detailed landscape of the Pain research literature. Some B/P studies have been developed to pinpoint difficulties in appropriately identifying the Pain literature or to highlight some general publishing pitfalls. Having observed that most of the recent B/P studies have integrated newly emergent software visualization tools (SVTs), we found an increase of anomalies and suggest that readers exercise caution when interpreting results in the B/P literature details.

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Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

Robert

Wilson²

2023

Front. Pain Res.

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“…However, we considered forty-two performance measures for post-optimization analysis under five main categories, including appointment makespan, waiting times between stages, overtime, utilization of resources, and advance drug preparation as shown in Table A3 ( Appendix B ). The first three categories contain the most used performance measures in OCP studies [ 4 ]. However, we included new performance measures under each category which have usually been neglected by previous studies due to the exclusion of several stages.…”

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“…The simulation models are used mainly to generate data and evaluate optimization solutions. In addition, these studies neglected many of the performance measures that exist in the literature [ 4 ].…”

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“…Outpatient Chemotherapy Centers (OCCs) worldwide are struggling to satisfy the increasing demand [ 2 , 3 ]. The service quality level and costs of the Outpatient Chemotherapy Process (OCP) are affected by the treatment protocols variety, diverse patient pathways, uncertain durations of services, early and late patient arrivals to the appointments, stochastic patient health conditions, and resource capacities [ 4 ]. Thus, the complex OCP that operates in a dynamic environment requires practical and low-cost solutions to increase its efficiency and effectiveness by solving operational issues through superior appointment planning and scheduling.…”

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Clustering and Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment Planning and Scheduling

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Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment (OCA) planning and scheduling is a process of distributing appointments to available days and times to be handled by various resources through a multi-stage process. Proper OCAs planning and scheduling results in minimizing the length of stay of patients and staff overtime. The integrated consideration of the available capacity, resources planning, scheduling policy, drug preparation requirements, and resources-to-patients assignment can improve the Outpatient Chemotherapy Process’s (OCP’s) overall performance due to interdependencies. However, developing a comprehensive and stochastic decision support system in the OCP environment is complex. Thus, the multi-stages of OCP, stochastic durations, probability of uncertain events occurrence, patterns of patient arrivals, acuity levels of nurses, demand variety, and complex patient pathways are rarely addressed together. Therefore, this paper proposes a clustering and stochastic optimization methodology to handle the various challenges of OCA planning and scheduling. A Stochastic Discrete Simulation-Based Multi-Objective Optimization (SDSMO) model is developed and linked to clustering algorithms using an iterative sequential approach. The experimental results indicate the positive effect of clustering similar appointments on the performance measures and the computational time. The developed cluster-based stochastic optimization approaches showed superior performance compared with baseline and sequencing heuristics using data from a real Outpatient Chemotherapy Center (OCC).

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“…The use of bibliometric and visualization software provides an objective picture of the current state of the field and provides researchers with visual information and potential research directions. Currently, bibliometrics are used in the fields of periodontology, community science, bone disease, cancer prognosis and care, and diabetes( Ahmad and Slots, 2020 ; Yang et al., 2021 ; Hadid et al., 2022 ; Hou et al., 2022 ; Zhang et al., 2022 ). But no articles have been published to analyze indicators of article quality, research hotspots and directions of development in metabolomics of the gastrointestinal microbiome.…”

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Advances in gut microbiome in metabonomics perspective: based on bibliometrics methods and visualization analysis

Wang

Zheng

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Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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Background and aimsGastrointestinal microbial metabolomics is closely related to the state of the organism and has significant interaction with the pathogenesis of many diseases. Based on the publications in Web of Science Core Collection(WoSCC) from 2004 to 2022, this study conducted a bibliometric analysis of this field, aiming to understand its development trend and frontier, and provide basic information and potential points for in-depth exploration of this field.MethodsAll articles on gastrointestinal flora and metabolism published from 2004 to 2022 were collected and identified in WoCSS. CiteSpace v.6.1 and VOSviewer v.1.6.15.0 were used to calculate bibliometric indicators, including number of publications and citations, study categories, countries/institutions, authors/co-cited authors, journals/co-cited journals, co-cited references, and keywords. A map was drawn to visualize the data based on the analysis results for a more intuitive view.ResultsThere were 3811 articles in WoSCC that met our criteria. Analysis results show that the number of publications and citations in this field are increasing year by year. China is the country with the highest number of publications and USA owns the highest total link strength and citations. Chinese Acad Sci rank first for the number of institutional publications and total link strength. Journal of Proteome Research has the most publications. Nicholson, Jeremy K. is one of the most important scholars in this field. The most cited reference is “Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease”. Burst detection indicates that Urine, spectroscopy, metabonomic and gut microflora are long-standing hot topics in this field, while autism spectrum disorder and omics are likely to be at the forefront of research. The study of related metabolic small molecules and the application of gastrointestinal microbiome metabolomics in various diseases are currently emerging research directions and frontier in this field.ConclusionThis study is the first to make a bibliometric analysis of the studies related to gastrointestinal microbial metabolomics and reveal the development trends and current research hotspots in this field. This can contribute to the development of the field by providing relevant scholars with valuable and effective information about the current state of the field.

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Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions

Cited by 10 publications

References 120 publications

Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

Clustering and Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment Planning and Scheduling

Advances in gut microbiome in metabonomics perspective: based on bibliometrics methods and visualization analysis

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