Bibliometric Analysis on the Risks of Oral Cancer for People Living with HIV/AIDS

In recent years, viral infections as risk factors for the onset of oral cancers have been well discussed by the international academic-scientific community. In Brazil, according to the National Cancer Institute, in 2016, 15490 new cases of oral cancer were estimated, counted as 11140 men and 4350 women (1). Bibliometry as a data collection and analysis technique has been used as an argumentative source in the search for investment resources in researches (2-3). The ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science database was used in this study for its international academic recognition to be considered one of the most comprehensive journals covering several areas of scientific knowledge (4). Data collection from the ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science database was performed using descriptors: oral cancer, HIV and Aids and exported to the HistCite bibliometric analysis software to organize information and facilitate analysis. According to Table 1, the search resulted in 201 articles on oral cancer and HIV/AIDS in the English, German and French languages, published in 111 different journals indexed to the main database and written by 954 authors with links to 340 institutions located in 37 countries. For the achievement of these articles, 7021 references were used, with an average of approximately 35 references per article (Table 1).