Publication trends in the medical informatics literature: 20 years of "Medical Informatics" in MeSH
Open Access
- 21 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Vol. 9 (1) , 7
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis over a twenty year period (1987–2006).Keywords
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