Researcher dynamics in the generation of emerging topics in life sciences and medicine

Ryosuke L. Ohniwa (), Kunio Takeyasu and Aiko Hibino
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Ryosuke L. Ohniwa: University of Tsukuba
Kunio Takeyasu: National Taiwan University
Aiko Hibino: Hirosaki University

Scientometrics, 2022, vol. 127, issue 2, No 10, 884 pages

Abstract: Abstract Understanding the driving forces that generate emerging topics (ETs or Emerging Research Topics) will assist in the sound development of science and technologies. In the present study, we aim to clarify the researcher dynamics of generating and developing ETs in life sciences and medicine over the past half-century by analyzing the pre-, contemporary-, and post-participation of researchers publishing articles containing the emerging keywords that are elements of ETs. Our results suggest that, while manpower needs for publication have increased, less manpower is actually required to generate ETs these days and that pre-participation in certain research topics has become important to generate regular ETs but not Nobel Prize-class ones. Finally, we discovered that, in this post-genomic era, those researchers who generate ETs also continue to focus on those fields. These trends illustrate a mode shift in the scientific practice of researchers that have generated and developed ETs over the last 50 years as well as highlight the significance of funding projects with high probabilities of generating high-impact ETs.

Keywords: Trends in life science and medicine; Emerging topics; MeSH terms; PubMed; Metrical index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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