Open AccessMapping the biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings: a comparison between MeSH co-assignments and MeSH citation pairs
Author(s) -
Fei Shu,
Junping Qiu,
Vincent Larivière
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the medical library association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1558-9439
pISSN - 1536-5050
DOI - 10.5195/jmla.2021.1173
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , subject (documents) , information retrieval , citation analysis , web of science , bibliometrics , data science , world wide web , medline , biology , biochemistry
This study compares two maps of biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term co-assignments versus MeSH terms of citing/cited articles and reveals similarities and differences between the two approaches.