Half a century of computer methods and programs in biomedicine: A bibliometric analysis from 1970 to 2017

Nagesh Shukla; José M Merigó; Thorsten Lammers; Luis Miranda

doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105075

Half a century of computer methods and programs in biomedicine: A bibliometric analysis from 1970 to 2017

Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2020 Jan:183:105075. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105075. Epub 2019 Sep 10.

Authors

Nagesh Shukla¹, José M Merigó², Thorsten Lammers³, Luis Miranda⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Information, Systems and Modelling, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 81 Broadway, Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: Nagesh.Shukla@uts.edu.au.
² School of Information, Systems and Modelling, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 81 Broadway, Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia; Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015 Santiago, Chile. Electronic address: Jose.Merigo@uts.edu.au.
³ School of Information, Systems and Modelling, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 81 Broadway, Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: Thorsten.Lammers@uts.edu.au.
⁴ Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015 Santiago, Chile.

PMID: 31526946
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105075

Abstract

Background and objective: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB) is a leading international journal that presents developments about computing methods and their application in biomedical research. The journal published its first issue in 1970. In 2020, the journal celebrates the 50th anniversary. Motivated by this event, this article presents a bibliometric analysis of the publications of the journal during this period (1970-2017).

Methods: The objective is to identify the leading trends occurring in the journal by analysing the most cited papers, keywords, authors, institutions and countries. For doing so, the study uses the Web of Science Core Collection database. Additionally, the work presents a graphical mapping of the bibliographic information by using the visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software. This is done to analyze bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-occurrence of keywords.

Results: CMPB is identified as a leading and core journal for biomedical researchers. The journal is strongly connected to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Paper from Wang, Jacques, Zheng (published in 1995) is its most cited document. The top author in this journal is James Geoffrey Chase and the top contributing institution is Uppsala U (Sweden). Most of the papers in CMPB are from the USA followed by the UK and Italy. China and Taiwan are the only Asian countries to appear in the top 10 publishing in CMPB. A keyword co-occurrences analysis revealed strong co-occurrences for classification, picture archiving and communication system (PACS), heart rate variability, survival analysis and simulation. Keywords analysis for the last decade revealed that machine learning for a variety of healthcare problems (including image processing and analysis) dominated other research fields in CMPB.

Conclusions: It can be concluded that CMPB is a world-renowned publication outlet for biomedical researchers which has been growing in a number of publications since 1970. The analysis also conclude that the journal is very international with publications from all over the world although today European countries are the most productive ones.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Co-citation; VOS viewer; Web of Science.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Bibliometrics*
Biomedical Research
Computational Biology / history*
Computer Graphics
Databases, Factual
Decision Support Techniques
Delivery of Health Care
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
Electronic Health Records
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Medical Informatics / history*
Publications
Publishing / history*
Software