title: Visualizing AMIA : a medical informatics knowledge domain analysis.
abstract: Medical Informatics has been described as having a "long and delayed adolescence" which continues to "find itself in search of self-definition", and the AMIA Symposium Proceedings have been viewed as an indicator of trends in the field. This pilot study investigated the feasibility of applying a knowledge domain visualization approach to clarifying the domain of medical informatics based on the AMIA publications. Document co-citation analysis (DCA) is combined with Pathfinder Network Scaling (PFNET), visualization, and animation to develop a 3-D knowledge landscape.
authors.affiliation: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Synnestvedt
authors.forename: Chaomei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D019359:Knowledge; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012955:Societies, Medical