Trends in research foci in life science fields over the last 30 years monitored by emerging topics

Scientometrics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-127

  Ohniwa, Ryosuke L ^a   Hibino, Aiko ^b   Takeyasu, Kunio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Co word analysis; Emerging topics; MeSH terms; PubMed; Trends in life science

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955841370     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0252-2     Document Type: Article

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