A bibliometric study on mathematical oncology: interdisciplinarity, internationality, collaboration and trending topics
by Kira Pugh, Linnéa Gyllingberg, Stanislav Stratiev, and Sara Hamis
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In this study, we use bibliometric methods to obtain a bird’s-eye view of mathematical oncology as a research field. Our data consist of articles from five leading mathematical biology journals (referred to as our focus journals), including the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. We examine interdisciplinarity, internationality, and trending topics in the field. Our analysis reveals that, since the 1960s, mathematical oncology has become more interactive with external research fields and globally connected, with changes in research themes. Our results show that mathematical oncology benefits both the mathematical and life sciences. Insights from our study can be used to inform funding, teaching, organisation, and communication practices.
We investigate interdisciplinarity, internationality, and trending topics in mathematical oncology through discipline-based citation flows (left figure), global author connectivity (middle figure), and word frequencies in titles and abstracts (right figure).
