Gaps within the Biomedical Literature: Initial Characterization and Assessment of Strategies for Discovery

Within well-established fields of biomedical science, we identify “gaps,” topical areas of investigation that might be expected to occur but are missing. We define a field by carrying out a topical PubMed query and analyze Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) by which the set of retrieved articles are in...

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Main Authors: Yufang Peng, Gary Bonifield, Neil R. Smalheiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2017.00003/full