Exploring the relationship between the engineering and physical sciences and the health and life sciences by advanced bibliometric methods.

ABSTRACT: We investigate the extent to which advances in the health and life sciences (HLS) are dependent on research in the engineering and physical sciences (EPS), particularly physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. The analysis combines two different bibliometric approaches. The first approach to analyze the 'EPS-HLS interface' is based on term map visualizations of HLS research fields. We consider 16 clinical fields and five life science fields. On the basis of expert judgment, EPS research in these fields is studied by identifying EPS-related terms in the term maps. In the second approach, a large-scale citation-based network analysis is applied to publications from all fields of science. We work with about 22,000 clusters of publications, each representing a topic in the scientific

SUBMITTER: Waltman L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4216103 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature