25 years of telepathology research: a bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The first appearance of the word "telepathology" in a scientific paper can be tracked down to 1986, in a famous editorial of Ronald Weinstein. Since that paper, research in telepathology grew up developing different subfields, including static and dynamic telepathology and more recently virtual microscopy. The present work attempts an analysis of research in telepathology, starting from the tools provided by bibliometrics.

Methods

A query has been developed to extract papers related to telepathology and virtual microscopy, and it has been then submitted to Pubmed by means of Entrez Utilities functions. Results obtained in XML have been processed through ad-hoc developed PHP scripts, in order to extract data on Authors, countries, and keywords.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Della Mea V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3073220 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature