title: Publication trends and impact factors in the Medical Informatics literature.
abstract: We survey the "evolution" of the field of Medical Informatics by describing trends in volume(quantity) of Medical Informatics-indexed publications, identifying major journals of publication and their focus areas and presenting trends in impact factor scores during the 1994-2003 period. Changes in total impact-scores suggest an increasing trend of publication in journals of higher impact.
authors.affiliation: Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Donna L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lavallie
authors.forename: Fredric M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*