Visualizing evolution and impact of biomedical fields

Authors:
Murat Cokol;Raul Rodriguez-Esteban
Affiliations:
Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Boston, MA 02115, USA;Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Joint Centers for Systems Biology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Venue:
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Year:
2008

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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.