BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:77. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-13-77
Global informetric perspective studies on translational medical research

Yao Qiang^1,†
Email: yaoqianghero@126.com

Lyu Peng-Hui^2*,†
* Corresponding author
Email: lvph@whu.edu.cn

Ma Fei-Cheng²
Email: fchma@whu.edu.cn

Yao Lan¹
Email: lanyao2013@126.com

Zhang Shi-Jing^1*
* Corresponding author
Email: zhangsj@scient.cn

¹ School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, People’s Republic of China

² Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People’s Republic of China

^† Equal contributors.

 Global informetric perspective studies on translational medical research.pdf 

Abstract

Background

Translational medical research literature has increased rapidly in the last few decades and played a more and more important role during the development of medicine science. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the global performance of translational medical research during the past few decades.

Methods

Bibliometric, social network analysis, and visualization technologies were used for analyzing translational medical research performance from the aspects of subject categories, journals, countries, institutes, keywords, and MeSH terms. Meanwhile, the co-author, co-words and cluster analysis methods were also used to trace popular topics in translational medical research related work.

Results

Research output suggested a solid development in translational medical research, in terms of increasing scientific production and research collaboration. We identified the core journals, mainstream subject categories, leading countries, and institutions in translational medical research. There was an uneven distribution of publications at authorial, institutional, and national levels. The most commonly used keywords that appeared in the articles were “translational research”, “translational medicine”, “biomarkers”, “stroke”, “inflammation”, “cancer”, and “breast cancer”.

Conclusions

The subject categories of “Research & Experimental Medicine”, “Medical Laboratory Technology”, and “General & Internal Medicine” play a key role in translational medical research both in production and in its networks. Translational medical research and CTS, etc. are core journals of translational research. G7 countries are the leading nations for translational medical research. Some developing countries, such as P.R China, also play an important role in the communication of translational research. The USA and its institutions play a dominant role in the production, collaboration, citations and high quality articles. The research trends in translational medical research involve drug design and development, pathogenesis and treatment of disease, disease model research, evidence-based research, and stem and progenitor cells.

Keywords

Translational medical research, Web of science, Informetrics, Social network analysis

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