Bibliometric perspectives on medical innovation using the medical subject Headings of PubMed

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2239-2253

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Rotolo, Daniele ^b   Rafols, Ismael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

Author keywords

innovation

Indexed keywords

BASE MAP; BIBLIOMETRIC; CITATION INFORMATION; DIFFUSION DYNAMICS; INDEX TERMS; INDEX TREES; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE DATABASE; NONLINEAR PROCESS; OVERLAY TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; STATIC MAPPING;

DYNAMICS; INNOVATION; RNA; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84868214905     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22715     Document Type: Article

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