Journal article
The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, v 5(5), pp 448-466
01 Jan 1998
PMID: 9760393
Abstract
Abstract Objective:
Medical informatics is an emergent
interdisciplinary field described as drawing upon and contributing to both the
health sciences and information sciences. The authors elucidate the
disciplinary nature and internal structure of the field.
Design:
To better understand the field's disciplinary nature, the
authors examine the intercitation relationships of its journal literature. To
determine its internal structure, they examined its journal cocitation
patterns.
Measurements:
The authors used data from the Science Citation Index
(SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to perform intercitation
studies among productive journal titles, and software routines from
SPSS
to perform multivariate data analyses on cocitation data for
proposed core journals.
Results:
Intercitation network analysis suggests that a core
literature exists, one mark of a separate discipline. Multivariate analyses of
cocitation data suggest that major focus areas within the field include
biomedical engineering, biomedical computing, decision support, and education.
The interpretable dimensions of multidimensional scaling maps differed for the
SCI and SSCI data sets. Strong links to information science literature were
not found.
Conclusion:
The authors saw indications of a core literature and of
several major research fronts. The field appears to be viewed differently by
authors writing in journals indexed by SCI from those writing in journals
indexed by SSCI, with more emphasis placed on computers and engineering versus
decision making by the former and more emphasis on theory versus application
(clinical practice) by the latter.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature
- Creators
- Theodore A. Morris - University of CincinnatiKatherine W. McCain
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, v 5(5), pp 448-466
- Publisher
- American Medical Informatics Association
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000075932200009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0031665091
- Other Identifier
- 991019168870004721
InCites Highlights
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Health Care Sciences & Services
- Information Science & Library Science
- Medical Informatics