| • Projects the overall trends in male infertility research |
| • Identifies the relative distribution of publications in various subareas of male infertility research |
| • Identifies the areas that have gained more/less attention over a given period of time |
| • Identifies the prolific authors in different areas of male infertility research |
| • Identifies the top institutions in each subcategory of male infertility research |
| • Identifies the research groups on the basis of their research approaches (e.g., mechanistic, prognostic, or diagnostic) |
| • Can be applied to an individual author/research group as a self-evaluation tool |
| • To identify collaborative partners for research and inter-disciplinary opportunities |
| • To compare different time periods and reveal the relative growth in male infertility research |
