Quantifying the complexity of medical research
- 31 August 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 29 (22) , 2918-2924
Abstract
Motivation: A crucial phenomenon of our times is the diminishing marginal returns of investments in pharmaceutical research and development. A potential reason is that research into diseases is becoming increasingly complex, and thus more burdensome, for humans to handle. We sought to investigate whether we could measure research complexity by analyzing the published literature.Keywords
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