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用先进的文献计量学方法探讨工程与物理科学与健康与生命科学的关系

Exploring the relationship between the Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Health and Life Sciences by advanced bibliometric methods

Ludo Waltman, Anthony F. J. van Raan, Sue Smart

摘要:

我们调查在何种程度上在健康和生命科学(HLS)的进步是依赖于在工程和物理科学(EPS),特别是物理,化学,数学和工程研究。分析结合了两种不同的文献计量方法。第一种方法来分析“EPS-HLS接口”是基于HLS研究领域的术语图可视化。我们考虑了16个临床领域和5个生命科学领域。在专家判断的基础上,通过识别术语图中与EPS相关的术语,研究这些领域的EPS研究。在第二种方法中,大规模的基于引文的网络分析适用于所有科学领域的出版物。我们与大约22,000种出版物合作,每种出版物都代表科学文献中的一个主题。引用关系用于在EPS-HLS接口上识别主题。这两种方法相辅相成。使用文本数据的优势弥补了使用引用关系的局限性,反之亦然。使用文本数据的一个重要优势是它提供了深入的定性见解。另一方面,处理引用关系会产生许多相关的定量统计数据。我们发现,EPS的研究有助于HLS的发展主要在以下五个方面:新材料及其性能;化学方法的分析和分子合成;成像的身体部位以及生物材料表面;医学工程主要涉及成像,放射治疗,信号处理技术,和其他医疗仪器;数学和统计方法的数据分析。在我们的分析中,所有EPS和HLS出版物中约有10%被归类为EPS-HLS接口。在过去十年中,这一比例基本保持不变。

英文摘要:

We investigate the extent to which advances in the health and life sciences (HLS) are dependent on research in the engineering and physical sciences (EPS), particularly physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. The analysis combines two different bibliometric approaches. The first approach to analyze the 'EPS-HLS interface' is based on term map visualizations of HLS research fields. We consider 16 clinical fields and five life science fields. On the basis of expert judgment, EPS research in these fields is studied by identifying EPS-related terms in the term maps. In the second approach, a large-scale citation-based network analysis is applied to publications from all fields of science. We work with about 22,000 clusters of publications, each representing a topic in the scientific literature. Citation relations are used to identify topics at the EPS-HLS interface. The two approaches complement each other. The advantages of working with textual data compensate for the limitations of working with citation relations and the other way around. An important advantage of working with textual data is in the in-depth qualitative insights it provides. Working with citation relations, on the other hand, yields many relevant quantitative statistics. We find that EPS research contributes to HLS developments mainly in the following five ways: new materials and their properties; chemical methods for analysis and molecular synthesis; imaging of parts of the body as well as of biomaterial surfaces; medical engineering mainly related to imaging, radiation therapy, signal processing technology, and other medical instrumentation; mathematical and statistical methods for data analysis. In our analysis, about 10% of all EPS and HLS publications are classified as being at the EPS-HLS interface. This percentage has remained more or less constant during the past decade.

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