Abstract
Benzene is an occupational and environmental toxicant, causing hematopoietic damage. Our study is aimed to extract the trend of benzene-induced leukemia (BIL) and qualitatively and quantitatively estimate research on it. Publications on BIL were identified from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). Microsoft Excel 2019 (Redmond, WA) and The CiteSpace 5.6.R5 software (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA) were used to analyze the publication outcomes, countries, institutions, authors, keywords, and research frontiers. The overall 1152 publications were collected from 1990 to 2019 until November 6, 2020. Environ Health Persp had the highest number of articles published. The USA were the top country in terms of BIL. The Smith MT, Yin SN, Lan Q, and Hayes RB are both listed in the top 10 of co-cited authors, high contribution authors, and the authors of co-cited references. High IF articles account for a considerable proportion, among all the publications. Chinese institutions engaged in BIL and contributed a large part of articles. Exposure population, exposure dose, and exposure risk are the research hotspots in this field. The risk of benzene exposure on childhood leukemia is at issue, and the studies on attributable risk of benzene-induced leukemia are few. More early, sensitive, and specific epigenetic biomarkers of benzolism may be the leading research fields of benzene-induced leukemia in the next few years.
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Abbreviations
- BIL:
-
Benzene-induced leukemia
- WoSCC:
-
Web of Science Core Collection
- IARC:
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International Agency for Research on Cancer
- AML:
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Acute myeloid leukemia
- ANLL:
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Acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia
- ALL:
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- CML:
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Chronic myeloid leukemia
- CLL:
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- SSCI:
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Social Science Citation Index
- JCR:
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Journal Citation Reports
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Conceptualization: Qianyu Sun and Boshen Wang; Writing—original draft preparation—Qianyu Sun; Formal analysis and investigation, Qianyu Sun and Shouxiang Xu; Validation, Juan Zhang, Boshen Wang, and Yuepu Pu; Writing—review and editing—Juan Zhang, Boshen Wang, Xiaowei Cong, and Qianyu Sun.
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Sun, Q., Wang, B., Xu, S. et al. Research development and trends of benzene-induced leukemia from 1990 to 2019-A bibliometric analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 9626–9639 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17432-3
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