Table 3.
The distribution of the bibliographic records by top 10 (by quantity) research domains.
| Research domains | Ranking based on total output | Outputa, n (%) | Ranking based on citations | Citationsb, n (%) |
| Computer science | 1 | 252 (18.42) | 1 | 15,706 (21.01) |
| Engineering | 2 | 192 (14.04) | 6 | 5468 (7.32) |
| Medical informatics | 3 | 169 (12.35) | 8 | 4893 (6.55) |
| Oncology | 4 | 153 (11.18) | 2 | 11,467 (15.34) |
| Radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging | 5 | 142 (10.38) | 4 | 6989 (9.35) |
| Health care sciences services | 6 | 132 (9.65) | 5 | 6729 (9.00) |
| Science, technology, and other topics | 7 | 99 (7.24) | 7 | 5207 (6.97) |
| General internal medicine | 8 | 85 (6.21) | 10 | 2565 (3.43) |
| Mathematical and computational biology | 9 | 78 (5.70) | 3 | 10,894 (14.57) |
| Biochemistry and molecular biology | 10 | 66 (4.82) | 9 | 4831 (6.46) |
aN=1368.
bN=74,749.