Informatics technology mimics ecology: dense, mutualistic collaboration networks are associated with higher publication rates.

ABSTRACT: Information technology (IT) adoption enables biomedical research. Publications are an accepted measure of research output, and network models can describe the collaborative nature of publication. In particular, ecological networks can serve as analogies for publication and technology adoption. We constructed network models of adoption of bioinformatics programming languages and health IT (HIT) from the literature.We selected seven programming languages and four types of HIT. We performed PubMed searches to identify publications since 2001. We calculated summary statistics and analyzed spatiotemporal relationships. Then, we assessed ecological models of specialization, cooperativity, competition, evolution, biodiversity, and stability associated with publications.Adoption of HIT has been va

SUBMITTER: Sorani MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3261203 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature