Author: VPInstitute

  • Evolution of the Patent Information World – Challenges of yesterday, today and tomorrow

    Highlights Patent information developments 1996–2014 reviewed. Implications of extended and improved search capabilities explored. Language issues, data volume and changing user needs are significant issues. Parallel development of basic raw data searches and of power searches and analysis predicted. Over the last 18 years, the field of patent information searches has dramatically evolved. Centralized information…

  • Clusterization and mapping of waste recycling science. Evolution of research from 2002 to 2012

    Characterization of waste recycling (WR) research has to start by defining the scope of this scientific area. Previous works and expert assessment recommend the adoption of an inclusive definition, with the aim of including all relevant uses of waste within this study. An ad-hoc designed “capture” strategy has been used to retrieve WR-related peer-reviewed journal…

  • Emerging medical informatics research trends detection based on MeSH terms

    The aim of this study is to analyze the research trends of medical informatics over the last 12 years. A new method based on MeSH terms was proposed to identify emerging topics and trends of medical informatics research. Informetric methods and visualization technologies were applied to investigate research trends of medical informatics. The metric of…

  • Natural products against cancer: A comprehensive bibliometric study of the research projects, publications, patents and drugs

    Objectives: To analyze multi-source data including awards, publications, patents and drugs, and try to draw the whole landscape of the research and development community in the area of natural products (NPs) against cancer. Materials and Methods: Awards, publications, patents and drugs data from National Institute of Health/Natural Science Foundation of China (NIH/NSFC), PubMed, Derwent Innovation…