Content and Trends in Medical Informatics Publications over the Past Two Decades

摘要：

　　This study aims to identify subject content and trends in the medical informatics literature in order to shed light on the past,current,and future directions of diverse education and research activities.A list of 36 core medical informatics journals was compiled through expert consensus.We retrieved 60,862 articles from the U.S.National Library of Medicines MEDLINE database that were published by those journals from 1992 to2015.A series of descriptive analyses were conducted to reveal the historical productivity of the journals,publications trends,and the subject content based on the Medical Subject Headings(MeSH)term frequencies and debut years.We found 73 core topics and 72 new topics of medical informatics within three relevant MeSH categories(informatics,techniques,and healthcare).

关键词： Medical Informatics Publications Medical Subject Headings

作者: Liqin Wang Maxim Topaz Joseph M.Plasek Li Zhou

作者单位: Division of General Medicine and Primary Care,Brigham and Womens Hospital,Boston,MA,USA;Harvard Med Division of General Medicine and Primary Care,Brigham and Womens Hospital,Boston,MA,USA Department of Biomedical Informatics,University of Utah School of Medicine,Salt Lake City,UT,USA Division of General Medicine and Primary Care,Brigham and Womens Hospital,Boston,MA,USA;Harvard Med

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第十六届世界医药健康信息学大会((MEDINFO2017)、第二届世界医药健康信息学华语论坛(WCHIS 2017)、第15届全国医药信息学大会(CMIA 2017)

会议地点: 苏州

会议语种:英文

页码: 968-972

在线出版日期: 2017-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）