Table 1.
Top ten rank-ordered results for selected citation and kinetic terms that are associated with a disease or symptom.
Disease/ symptom* |
Articles (n) |
Authors (n) |
Journals (n) |
Onset or latency (n) |
Duration or persistence (n) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pain | 1044 | 3100 | 450 | 96 | 123 |
Dystonia | 890 | 2035 | 283 | 47 | 143 |
Spasticity | 608 | 1665 | 238 | 21 | 55 |
Strain | 580 | 1758 | 210 | 4 | 11 |
Spasm | 525 | 1492 | 272 | 45 | 102 |
Blepharospasm | 449 | 1113 | 200 | 29 | 80 |
Hemifacial spasm | 308 | 849 | 156 | 24 | 62 |
Hyperhidrosis | 304 | 608 | 124 | 5 | 32 |
Headache | 267 | 599 | 134 | 8 | 35 |
Achalasia | 260 | 778 | 120 | 5 | 29 |
A total of 52 query terms for during the year 1980 to the present were submitted to the batch option of botXminer during June–July, 2009. Citation and kinetic terms were added to the query for the top ten ranked diseases or symptoms.