Evolution of Topics About Medical Informatics by Improved Co-word Cluster Analysis
Yang Ying1, Cui Lei2
1. Library of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001,China;
2. Department of Information Management and Information System (Medicine), China Medical University, Shenyang 110001,China
Co-word cluster method is improved by following ways: high-frequency words are selected according to the formula derived from Zipf’s law; adhesive force is used to identify the core major MeSH words for tagging the content of each cluster; contrastive analysis of two periods helps to find the topics change. The bibliographic data of medical informatics are collected from PubMed in two periods (1999-2003 and 2004-2008). Major MeSH words from the articles are extracted separately to make co-word clusters as to explore the evolution of this subject structure based on comparison of two periods.
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Yang Ying, Cui Lei. Evolution of Topics About Medical Informatics by Improved Co-word Cluster Analysis. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2011, 27(1): 83-87.
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