TY - GEN
T1 - Mapping the field of Bioinformatics with a content and co-Authorship analysis
AU - Song, Min
AU - Yang, Christopher C.
AU - Tang, Xuning
AU - Han, Wook Shin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Bioinformatics is a fast-growing interdisciplinary research field that applies advanced computational techniques to biological data. Bibliometrics analysis has recently been adopted to understand the knowledge structure of a research field by citation pattern. In this paper, we explore the knowledge structure of Bioinformatics from the perspective of a core open access Bioinformatics journal, BMC Bioinformatics with trend analysis, the content and co-Authorship network similarity, and principal component analysis. The experimental results show that Bioinformatics is fast-growing, dynamic and diversified. The content analysis shows that there is an increasing overlap among Bioinformatics journals in terms of topics and more research groups participate in researching Bioinformatics according to the co-Authorship network similarity.
AB - Bioinformatics is a fast-growing interdisciplinary research field that applies advanced computational techniques to biological data. Bibliometrics analysis has recently been adopted to understand the knowledge structure of a research field by citation pattern. In this paper, we explore the knowledge structure of Bioinformatics from the perspective of a core open access Bioinformatics journal, BMC Bioinformatics with trend analysis, the content and co-Authorship network similarity, and principal component analysis. The experimental results show that Bioinformatics is fast-growing, dynamic and diversified. The content analysis shows that there is an increasing overlap among Bioinformatics journals in terms of topics and more research groups participate in researching Bioinformatics according to the co-Authorship network similarity.
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U2 - 10.1109/BIBMW.2012.6470238
DO - 10.1109/BIBMW.2012.6470238
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875593369
SN - 9781467327466
T3 - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2012
SP - 774
EP - 781
BT - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2012
Y2 - 4 October 2012 through 7 October 2012
ER -