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. 2022 May 16:1–16. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s12204-022-2418-5

Medicine-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research Based on Bibliometric Analysis: A Case Study on Medicine-Engineering Institutional Cooperation of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Qingwen Wang 1, Tingting Cui 1, Peiwen Deng 1,✉
PMCID: PMC9109747  PMID: 35600243

Abstract

This article aims to provide reference for medicine-engineering interdisciplinary research. Targeted at the scientific literature and patent literature published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this article attempts to set up co-occurrence matrix of medicine-engineering institutional information which was extracted from address fields of the papers, so as to construct the medicine-engineering intersection datasets. The dataset of scientific literature was analyzed using bibliometrics and visualization methods from multiple dimensions, and the most active factors, such as trends of output, journal and subject distribution, were identified from the indicators of category normalized citation impact (CNCI), times cited, keywords, citation topics and the degree of medicine-engineering interdisplinary. Research on hotspots and trends was discussed in detail. Analyses of the dataset of patent literature showed research themes and measured the degree for technology convergence of medicine-engineering.

Key words: medicine-engineering interdisplinary, institutional cooperation, bibliometrics, bibliographic coupling, journals dual-map overlay, co-citation, citation topics, medicine and engineering technology convergence

Acknowledgment

The authors thank Research Librarian Qiu Xiaochun for assistance with the samples range and for providing some valuable counter measures and suggestions, and Dr. Zhang Lin for sharing method of extracting the institutional information of address fields. The authors also thank Dr. Liu Yan for enlighting discussions of DDA software application, and Associate Research Librarian Li Jing for helpful conversations.

Foundation item

the Key Research Fund for CALIS National Information Center in Medicine (No. CALIS-2020-01-001)

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