title: Visual exploration of landmarks and trends in the medical informatics literature.
abstract: This study presents preliminary results from a visual study of a new dataset of forty years of citation data from publications of twelve journals in the medical informatics field covering the time period from 1964-2004. Highly cited and pivotal documents, areas of specialization within medical informatics, and emergence of research topics are visually mapped through a progressive knowledge domain visualization approach to detecting and visualizing trends and patterns in scientific literature.
authors.affiliation: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, USA.
authors.forename: Marie B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Synnestvedt
authors.forename: Chaomei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Holmes
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*