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. 2010 Nov 9;5(11):e13902. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013902

Table 2. Number (Percentage) of Publications in the top 20 medical journals ranked by IF and EF for 26 most common neoplasms.

AIF AEF
Rank Cancer Output (%) Rank Cancer Output (%)
1 Leukemia 533 (17.22) 1 Breast 732 (15.61)
2 Breast 496 (16.02) 2 Leukemia 646 (13.78)
3 Intestinal 348 (11.24) 3 Lung 493 (10.51)
4 Lung 266 (8.59) 4 Intestinal 482 (10.28)
5 Non-Hodgkin 214 (6.91) 5 Prostatic 353 (7.53)
6 Prostatic 170 (5.49) 6 Non-Hodgkin 276 (5.89)
7 Liver 162 (5.23) 7 CNS 208 (4.44)
8 Myeloma 123 (3.97) 8 Ovarian 205 (4.37)
9 CNS 105 (3.39) 9 Melanoma 194 (4.14)
10 Ovarian 86 (2.78) 10 Liver 165 (3.52)
11 Pancreatic 86 (2.78) 11 Myeloma 156 (3.33)
12 Stomach 81 (2.62) 12 Pancreatic 151 (3.22)
13 Uterine 73 (2.36) 13 Kidney 112 (2.39)
14 Kidney 61 (1.97) 14 Uterine 109 (2.32)
15 Hodgkin 60 (1.94) 15 Stomach 80 (1.71)
16 Melanoma 60 (1.94) 16 Hodgkin 65 (1.39)
17 Esophageal 48 (1.55) 17 Esophageal 54 (1.15)
18 Testicular 38 (1.23) 18 Urinary 48 (1.02)
19 Soft Tissue 29 (0.94) 19 Testicular 36 (0.77)
20 Urinary 21 (0.68) 20 Thyroid 35 (0.75)
21 Mesothelioma 11 (0.36) 21 Soft Tissue 30 (0.64)
22 Mouth 11 (0.36) 22 Mouth 26 (0.55)
23 Thyroid 9 (0.29) 23 Mesothelioma 24 (0.51)
24 Laryngeal 5 (0.16) 24 Laryngeal 6 (0.13)
25 Gallbladder 0 (0.00) 25 Gallbladder 2 (0.04)
26 Vulvar 0 (0.00) 26 Vulvar 1 (0.02)
Total 3096 (100) Total 4689 (100)

AIF, output on each malignancy in the top twenty medical journals by IF in 2007; AEF, output on each malignancy in the top twenty medical journals by EF in 2007.