Brüggmann Dörthe, Grimstein Matthias, Solbach Christine, Klingelhöfer Doris, Bendels Michael H K, Jaque Jenny, Groneberg David A
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany.
Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2021 Jan;11(1):143-161. doi: 10.21037/qims-19-774.
Since mammography belongs to the most important preventive techniques in modern medicine, this study maps the related worldwide research output, which encompasses quantitative and qualitative aspects of the scientific activity and socio-economic features.
The New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science (NewQIS) computing platform identified all mammography-specific articles in the Web of Science within two time periods, from 1900 to 2014 (P1) and from 2015 to 2020 (P2), a combination of density-equalizing mapping projections (DEMP) and socio-economic benchmarking was applied for analysis.
A total of 13,629 articles were retrieved. 8,744 articles were identified in P1 and 4,885 in P2. More than 100 articles were published annually since the 1980s. Regarding productivity and collaborative efforts, the United States was the leading nation in both evaluation periods. In our socioeconomic analysis, it was also ranked at the first place in P1 [72.68 mammography-related publications per GDP/capita (RGDP)]. The US was followed by the UK and Germany in P1 and by UK and India in P2. When population sizes were related to mammography research activities, Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands showed the highest research activity in P1 (e.g., Sweden: 31.89 publications per 1 million inhabitants). Gender analysis illustrated a relative dominance of female researchers in most countries with the exception of Japan.
The global mammography research activity over the last century is paralleled by strong international collaborative efforts and follows largely economic figures and prevalence rates but displays distinct differences in comparison to the research landscape of other biomedical entities.
由于乳腺钼靶摄影术属于现代医学中最重要的预防技术之一，本研究绘制了全球范围内与之相关的研究产出情况，其中涵盖了科学活动的定量和定性方面以及社会经济特征。
科学新质量与数量指标（NewQIS）计算平台确定了两个时间段内科学网中所有乳腺钼靶摄影术相关文章，即1900年至2014年（P1）以及2015年至2020年（P2），采用密度均衡映射投影（DEMP）和社会经济基准分析相结合的方法进行分析。
共检索到13629篇文章。P1阶段识别出8744篇文章，P2阶段识别出4885篇文章。自20世纪80年代以来，每年发表的文章超过100篇。在生产力和合作方面，美国在两个评估阶段均领先。在我们的社会经济分析中，美国在P1阶段也排名第一[人均国内生产总值（RGDP）的乳腺钼靶摄影术相关出版物为72.68篇]。P1阶段美国之后是英国和德国，P2阶段是英国和印度。当将人口规模与乳腺钼靶摄影术研究活动相关联时，斯堪的纳维亚国家和荷兰在P1阶段显示出最高的研究活跃度（例如，瑞典：每百万居民有31.89篇出版物）。性别分析表明，除日本外，大多数国家女性研究人员相对占主导地位。
上个世纪全球乳腺钼靶摄影术研究活动伴随着强大的国际合作努力，在很大程度上遵循经济数据和患病率，但与其他生物医学实体的研究格局相比存在明显差异。
