The dynamic interest in topics within the biomedical scientific community.

ABSTRACT: The increase in the size of the scientific community created an explosion in scientific production. We have analyzed the dynamics of biomedical scientific output during 1957-2007 by applying a bibliometric analysis of the PubMed database using different keywords representing specific biomedical topics. With the assumption that increased scientific interest will result in increased scientific output, we compared the output of specific topics to that of all scientific output. This analysis resulted in three broad categories of topics; those that follow the general trend of all scientific output, those that show highly variable output, and attractive topics which are new and grow explosively. The analysis of the citation impact of the scientific output resulted in a typical longtail distribut

SUBMITTER: Michon F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2721680 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature