Visualizing evolution and impact of biomedical fields.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.05.002 and PMC identifier 2650620.
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Abstract
We describe a new tool for visualization of biomedical scientific trends. The method captures variations in scientific impact over time to allow for a comparison of relative significance and evolution of fields similar to a financial market scorecard. The tool is available at SciTrends (http://www.scitrends.net), depicting the evolution of almost 200 thousand biomedical fields in time. With millions of articles on thousands of topics published in biomedicine, we envision that only with such large-scale tools researchers can objectively understand the ever-changing interests in the biomedical sciences and make more informed decisions.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology