Earlier today, Emily Wixson posted a question on the CHMINF-L list asking … if there is any way to count the number of authors of papers with specific keywords in the title by year over a decade … Since I had some code compiling and databases loading I took a quick stab, using Python and […]
Drug Discovery Trends In and From the Literature
I came across a recent paper by Agarwal and Searls which describes a detailed bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature to identify and characterize specific research topics that appear to be drivers for drug discovery – i.e., research areas/topics in life sciences that exhibit significant activity and thus might be fruitful for drug discovery efforts. […]
Locality of References in a Paper
The other day I was reading a paper and as is my habit, while reading I flip to see what papers are being cited. Since this was an ACS journal, the references are listed in the order that they occur in the text. When the authors were discussing a point in the paper, they’d usually […]