Visualizing evolution and impact of biomedical fields.
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.
Cokol
Murat
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rodriguez-Esteban
Raul
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D019295:Computational Biology