Current trends and hotspots of depressive disorders with colorectal cancer: A bibliometric and visual study

Table 1 Top 10 institutions with the most published articles

Rank	Institution	Country	Publications	Citations
1	Tilburg University	Netherlands	31	767
2	The University of Hong Kong	China	24	538
3	National Cancer Center	Japan	19	360
4	The University of Melbourne	Australia	19	1053
5	University of Queensland	Australia	18	702
6	Sun Yat Sen University	China	18	437
7	University of North Carolina	United States	17	449
8	Duke University	United States	16	1040
9	Indiana University	United States	16	730
10	University of Toronto	Canada	15	1193

Table 2 Top 10 journals with the most published articles

Rank	Source	JCR	IF (2022)	Total publications	Total citations
1	Supportive Care in Cancer	Q2	3.359	64 (6.0%)	1856
2	Psycho-Oncology	Q4	3.955	57 (5.4%)	1608
3	Cancer	Q1	6.921	23 (2.2%)	677
4	Journal of Cancer Survivorship	Q2	4.062	22 (2.1%)	664
5	BMC Cancer	Q2	4.638	19 (1.8%)	439
6	Diseases of the Colon & Rectum	Q2	4.412	17 (1.6%)	252
7	World Journal of Gastroenterology	Q3	5.374	17 (1.6%)	384
8	PLOS ONE	Q3	3.752	16 (1.5%)	596
9	European Journal of Oncology Nursing	Q2	2.588	15 (1.4%)	336
10	Journal of Clinical Oncology	Q1	50.717	13 (1.2%)	1464

Table 3 Top 10 authors with the most published articles

Rank	Source	Total publications	Total citations
1	Mols	25	492
2	Van de Poll-Franse	18	457
3	Weijenberg	11	162
4	Thong	10	306
5	Husson	9	227
6	Hebert	8	282
7	Miaskowski	7	83
8	Bours	7	38
9	Shivappa	6	223
10	Griffin	6	220

Table 4 Top 10 most co-cited references

Rank	Year	Journal	Title	Citation	Impact index	Ref.
1	1983	Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica	The hospital anxiety and depression scale	214	719.3	Zigmond et al[74], 1983
2	1993	Journal of the National Cancer Institute	The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: a quality-of-life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology	93	339.5	Aaronson et al[75], 1993
3	2001	Psycho-Oncology	The prevalence of psychological distress by cancer site	48	69.7	Zabora et al[76], 2001
4	1993	Endoscopy	Endoscopic mucosal resection of flat and depressed types of early colorectal cancer	44	17.4	Kudo et al[77], 1993
5	2002	Journal of Psychosomatic Research	The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-An updated literature review	39	305.1	Bjelland et al[78], 2002
6	2003	Arthritis & Rheumatism-Arthritis Care & Research	The self-administered comorbidity questionnaire: A new method to assess comorbidity for clinical and health services research	39	62.5	Sangha et al[79], 2003
7	1987	Journal of Chronic Diseases	A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation	38	949.4	Charlson et al[80], 1987
8	1979	Psychosomatic Medicine	Impact of Event Scale: a measure of subjective stress	35	104.2	Horowitz et al[81], 1979
9	1993	Journal of Clinical Oncology: Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology	The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure	33	132.4	Cella et al[82], 1993
10	2000	Lancet	Flat and depressed colonic neoplasms: a prospective study of 1000 colonoscopies in the United Kingdom	31	19.5	Rembacken et al[83], 2000

Table 5 Clusters of the top 100 keywords

Cluster	Keyword	Count	Rank	Cluster	Keyword	Count	Rank
1	Chemotherapy	72	13	4	Colonoscopy	38	33
1	Survival	66	17	4	Risk-factors	27	46
1	Expression	53	22	4	Adenomas	24	50
1	Therapy	35	35	4	Flat	23	54
1	Association	33	38	4	Screening	22	60
1	Metastasis	24	48	4	Resection	20	68
1	Apoptosis	22	56	4	Surveillance	20	69
1	Invasion	18	76	4	Lesions	19	73
1	Activation	17	81	4	Efficacy	16	92
1	Cancer patient	17	82	4	Guidelines	16	93
1	Oxaliplatin	17	83	4	Endoscopic mucosal resection	15	96
1	Proliferation	17	84	5	Quality-of-life	425	1
1	Prognosis	15	95	5	Anxiety	157	2
1	Epidemiology	14	99	5	Psychological distress	98	3
1	Mechanisms	13	102	5	Survivors	95	5
2	Prevalence	88	8	5	Health	92	6
2	Women	81	9	5	Care	62	19
2	Impact	72	14	5	Social support	54	21
2	Mortality	53	23	5	Surgery	44	28
2	Follow-up	35	36	5	Stress	37	34
2	Comorbidity	31	40	5	Adjustment	35	37
2	Disorders	24	49	5	Intervention	24	51
2	Mental health	23	53	5	Self-efficacy	24	52
2	Age	21	62	5	Of-life	23	55
2	Interventions	21	63	5	Randomized controlled-trial	22	61
2	Adults	19	70	5	Stoma	18	79
2	Burden	19	71	6	Validation	71	15
2	Quality	19	72	6	Population	52	24
3	Risk	90	7	6	Predictors	45	27
3	Fatigue	65	18	6	Questionnaire	39	31
3	Symptoms	61	20	6	Validity	28	45
3	Depressive symptoms	48	26	6	Functional assessment	26	47
3	Prostate cancer	38	32	6	Reliability	21	66
3	Meta-analysis	31	41	6	Health-related quality of life	19	74
3	Inflammation	29	43	6	Long-term survivors	19	75
3	Physical activity	29	44	6	Instrument	17	88
3	Breast cancer	22	57	6	Personality	14	100
3	Exercise	22	58	7	Hospital anxiety	97	4
3	Survivorship	22	59	7	Distress	81	10
3	Physical activity	21	64	7	Depression scale	42	29
3	Prevention	21	65	7	Communication	21	67
3	Cancer survivors	18	77	7	Nonpolyposis colorectal-cancer	17	89
3	Patient-reported outcomes	18	78	7	Genetic testing	16	94
3	Adjuvant chemotherapy	17	85	7	Experience	15	97
3	Older adult	17	86	7	Ovarian-cancer	14	101
3	Sleep	17	87	8	Oncology	68	16
3	Cancer survivorship	16	91	8	Scale	33	39
4	Diagnosis	79	11	8	Pain	30	42
4	Colon	50	25	8	Life	15	98
4	Management	39	30	9	Outcomes	75	12
4	Colonoscopy	38	33	9	Morbidity	18	80