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Table 1 The top 10 most published countries/regions

Rank	Country/region	Article counts	Centrality	Percentage (%)	Citation	Citation per publication
1	China	247	0.02	24.82	2763	11.19
2	Japan	208	0.17	20.90	3680	17.69
3	USA	143	0.37	14.37	4722	33.02
4	South Korea	127	0.05	12.76	3198	25.18
5	Italy	50	0.11	5.03	1153	23.06
6	Turkey	44	0.00	4.42	281	6.39
7	Germany	33	0.10	3.32	993	30.09
8	France	27	0.06	2.71	1431	53.00
9	England	22	0.05	2.21	1840	83.64
10	Canada	22	0.03	2.21	1291	58.68

Table 2 The top 10 most published institutions

Rank	Institution	Country	Number of studies	Total citations	Average citation
1	Yonsei University	Korea	32	907	28.34
2	Yonsei University Health System	Korea	31	905	29.19
3	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences - Peking Union Medical College	China	23	248	10.78
4	Cancer Institute & Hospital - CAMS	China	19	204	10.74
5	Peking Union Medical College	China	19	176	9.26
6	China Medical University	China	16	299	18.69
7	CHU Lille	France	15	783	52.20
8	Harvard University	USA	14	845	60.36
9	Catholic University of Korea	Korea	13	151	11.62
10	Fudan University	China	13	196	15.08

Table 3 The top 10 journals with the highest output

Rank	Journal	Article counts	Percentage (%)	IF	Quartile in category
1	World journal of Gastroenterology	41	4.12	4.3	Q2
2	Gastric cancer	39	3.92	7.4	Q1
3	Frontiers in oncology	21	2.11	4.7	Q2
4	Annals of surgical oncology	20	2.01	3.7	Q2
5	American journal of surgical pathology	19	1.91	5.6	Q1
6	Medicine	17	1.71	1.6	Q3
7	World journal of surgical oncology	14	1.41	3.2	Q3
8	Cancers	13	1.31	5.2	Q2
9	Journal of surgical oncology	13	1.31	2.5	Q4
10	Human pathology	12	1.21	3.3	Q2

IF: Impact factor.

Table 4 The top 10 most co-cited journals

Rank	Cited journal	Co-citation	IF (2020)	Quartile in category
1	Gastric cancer	475	7.4	Q1
2	Cancer	398	6.2	Q1
3	World journal of Gastroenterology	386	4.3	Q2
4	Annals of surgical oncology	355	3.7	Q2
5	Journal of surgical oncology	339	2.5	Q4
6	Annals of surgery	328	10.1	Q1
7	Journal of clinical oncology	308	45.4	Q1
8	Cancers	259	5.2	Q2
9	International journal of cancer	254	6.4	Q1
10	Cancer research	233	11.2	Q1

IF: Impact factor.

Table 5 The top 10 most published and most co-cited authors

Rank	Author	Count	Location	Rank	Co-cited author	Citation
1	Sung Hoon Noh	21	Korea	1	Pekka Laurén	189
2	Yong Chan Lee	18	Korea	2	Japanese Gastric Cancer Association	130
3	Jie-Hyun Kim	15	Korea	3	Guillaume Piessen	126
4	Hyun-Ki Kim	12	Korea	4	Woo Jin Hyung	114
5	Sang Kil Lee	12	Korea	5	Simon Pernot	108
6	Woo Jin Hyung	11	Korea	6	Sharven Taghavi	107
7	Seung Ho Choi	10	Korea	7	Ahmedin Jemal	102
8	Hyo Jin Park	10	USA	8	Chen Li	100
9	Guillaume Piessen	10	France	9	Donald Earl Henson	99
10	Young Hoon Youn	10	Korea	10	Chikara Kunisaki	98

Table 6 The top 20 most popular keywords

Rank	Keyword	Counts	Rank	Keyword	Counts
1	Prognosis	174	11	Lymph-node metastasis	55
2	Survival	133	12	E-cadherin	52
3	Expression	113	13	Impact	52
4	Histology	87	14	Immunohistochemistry	51
5	Chemotherapy	69	15	Early gastric cancer	50
6	Classification	68	16	Clinicopathological characteristics	49
7	Resection	67	17	Diffuse	47
8	Surgery	66	18	Diagnosis	46
9	Features	57	19	Endoscopic submucosal dissection	44
10	Metastasis	57	20	Prognostic-significance	43