Table 2.
Distribution of publications based upon keywords associated with the network theory.
| PubMed keyword search | [“1980/01/01” (date – publication): “1990/12/31” (date – publication)] |
[“1991/01/01” (date – publication): “2000/12/31” (date –publication)] |
[“2001/01/01” (date – publication): “2012/8/28” (date – publication)] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idiotypic network | 254 | 249 | 105 |
| Idiotypic network theory | 32 | 19 | 17 |
| Anti-idiotype antibodies | 4229 | 3326 | 2794 |
| Anti-idiotypes | 180 | 100 | 29 |
| Anti-idiotypic vaccine | 169 | 268 | 292 |
| Idiotype | 3432 | 1596 | 758 |
| Regulatory idiotype | 411 | 65 | 40 |
| Idiotope | 262 | 158 | 27 |
| Idiotypy | 62 | 14 | 2 |