Global trends in nutrition and gastric cancer: A bibliometric analysis study

Abstract

Background: Nutrition in the management of gastric cancer has a big role to play. Recent research has shown that nutritional therapies, counseling, and various interventions positively impact the quality of life of gastric cancer patients.

Purpose: To identify the global research output for nutrition in gastric cancer research, a bibliometric analysis during the past 5 years was conducted to evaluate the current status of trends, gaps, and research directions as no bibliometric studies have been conducted regarding nutrition and gastric cancer so far.

Material & Methods: Total of 276 articles were chosen from pubmed for this bibliometric study from a set of 2044 articles.

Results: The number of publications has grown from 2019 to 2020. However, there was a decline in the number of publications from year 2021 onwards. The majority of the authors’ affiliations were from the United States. It has been identified that authors have majorly used “middle-aged, “male” and “female” as keywords after “humans”. The Nutrients journal was the most popular among the authors as the journal published 21 articles related to the topic. Providing evidence-based nutritional solutions for various nutrition and gastric cancer research interventions.

Conclusions : Since it is presumed that stomach cancer is still the most aggressive cancer and still the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths globally. Hence, it is vital to generate research findings concluding some effective nutrition therapies for gastric cancer patients.