Oncology research in late twentieth century and turn of the century Portugal: a scientometric approach to its institutional and semantic dimensions

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017

Authors

Bras, OR (Author) Other; Cointet, JP (Author) Other; Cambrosio, A (Author) Other; David L (Author) FMUP; Nunes, JA (Author) Other; Cardoso, F (Author) Other; Carmen Jeronimo (Author) ICBAS

Journal

Title: Scientometrics

Vol. 113

Pages: 867-888

ISSN: 0138-9130

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-3CX

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2491-y

Abstract (EN): This paper analyses the developmental dynamics of oncology research in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty first century. Grounding its conclusions in a scientometric analysis of a database of publications covering the period 1976-2015, the paper shows how the expansion of oncology research from the end of the 1990s through the 2000s is closely related to science and technology policy decisions in the country. The main actors of the institutional evolution of the field are public organizations, both hospital and academia/research-based, frequently working together. Portuguese oncology research focused especially on organ-based cancers, underlining the strong link between the laboratory and the clinic. Accordingly, translational research is a major trend in oncology research, as evidenced by the analysis of publications in major journals and inter-citation maps. Networks of institutional co-authorships show the importance of regional and international collaborations. The collaboration patterns over time reveal the importance of national and European collaborations during the initial years covered by our publication database, in line with the major impact of Portugal's integration into the European Union, and a growing importance of regional collaborations, as well as with North and South American institutions in more recent years. Portugal provides a case study of how twentieth century policies at the national and European levels have impacted on the evolution of oncology research in countries from southern Europe.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 22