Table 4.

Factor Loadings of Principal Components from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)

Journal Title	Loading
Component 1: General Medical Informatics
American Health Information Management Association Journal	0.89
Methods of Information in Medicine	0.88
MD Computing	0.83
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	0.81
Medical Informatics	0.80
Journal of Medical Systems	0.80
Computers and Biomedical Research	0.80
Computers in Biology and Medicine	0.73
Computers in Nursing	0.65
Medical Decision Making	0.54
Component 2: Education
Medical Education	1.03
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association	0.79
Academic Medicine	0.79
Medical Decision Making	0.64
Component 3: Patient Monitoring
Journal of Clinical Monitoring	0.76
International Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	0.71
Statistics in Medicine	-0.55
Component 4: Biomedical Computing and Engineering Research
Computers and Biomedical Research	-0.82
Medical Informatics	-0.75
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	-0.74
Computers in Biology and Medicine	-0.73
Journal of Medical Systems	-0.72
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	-0.70
International Journal of Bio-Medical Communications	-0.69
Computer Applications in the Biosciences	-0.68
Medical Decision Making	-0.65
MD Computing	-0.64
Methods of Information in Medicine	-0.61
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association	-0.57
Statistics in Medicine	-0.56
Computers in Nursing	-0.50
Component 5: Biomedical Computing and Engineering Application
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	0.92
Computers in Nursing	0.84
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	0.83
Computers in Biology and Medicine	0.73
Medical Informatics	0.69
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	0.68
International Journal of Bio-Medical Communications	0.67
MD Computing	0.64
Journal of Medical Systems	0.62
Note: Only component loadings above 0.50 (absolute value) are listed.