Table 2.
Table 2 The Comparison of CCPY and CC for Important Article Ranking
| Category | # of Important Article 1 (Total # of articles retrieved 2 ) | Average Ranking 3 | Improvement Rate (%) 6 | Example 7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CC 4 | CCPY 5 | PMID | CC Rank | CCPY Rank | Year Published | |||
| Breast Cancer | 65 (77784) | 4976.5 | 3069.844 | 38.3132 | 11157042 | 1655 | 381 | 2001 |
| 11230499 | 1847 | 432 | 2001 | |||||
| Colorectal Cancer | 39 (53686) | 6938.838 | 4857.378 | 29.99723 | 11006366 | 49 | 10 | 2000 |
| 11309435 | 1829 | 515 | 2001 | |||||
| Endocrine Cancer | 72 (46981) | 4402.014 | 3389.435 | 23.00264 | 10973383 | 1182 | 261 | 2000 |
| 10458257 | 771 | 210 | 1999 | |||||
| Esophageal Cancer | 34 (16359) | 995.4688 | 641.2188 | 35.58625 | 10080844 | 3 | 0 | 1999 |
| 11547741 | 41 | 9 | 2001 | |||||
| Gastric Cancer | 47 (33938) | 2178.298 | 1463.489 | 32.815 | 11547741 | 101 | 22 | 2001 |
| 10080844 | 19 | 5 | 1999 | |||||
| Hepatobiliary Cancer | 68 (76616) | 7338.657 | 4123.269 | 43.8144 | 10636102 | 308 | 49 | 2000 |
| 10973388 | 341 | 55 | 2001 | |||||
| Lung Cancer | 42 (74189) | 3413.585 | 2595.488 | 23.96593 | 10694600 | 1979 | 587 | 2000 |
| 9187198 | 10 | 3 | 1997 | |||||
| Melanoma | 46 (33074) | 2968.891 | 1761.13 | 40.68054 | 11504745 | 63 | 8 | 2001 |
| 11504744 | 133 | 26 | 2001 | |||||
| Pancreas Cancer | 61 (25241) | 2061.633 | 1131.933 | 45.09531 | 11297271 | 1099 | 238 | 2001 |
| 11258776 | 1329 | 290 | 2001 | |||||
| Soft Tissue Sarcomas | 22 (3193) | 205.7619 | 110 | 46.54015 | 11230464 | 117 | 16 | 2001 |
| 11230466 | 296 | 61 | 2001 | |||||
1 The number of important articles in each type of cancers defined by SSO_AB;
2 The number of articles retrieved from MEDLINE;
3 Please refer to equation (1) for Average Ranking calculation;
4 CC: Citation Count;
5 CCPY: Citation Count per Year;
6 Please refer to equation (2) for Improvement Rate calculation;
7 For each type of cancer, two articles (PMIDs were listed) with largest improvement rate are identified.