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The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature -- Morris and McCain 5 (5): 448 -- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature -- Morris and McCain 5 (5): 448 -- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: "Research Paper
The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature
Theodore A. Morris, MLS and Katherine W. McCain, PhD
Affiliations of the authors: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (TAM); Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (KWM).
Correspondence and reprints: Theodore A. Morris, University of Cincinnati Medical Center Academic Information Technology and Libraries, 231 Bethesda Avenue, P.O. Box 670574, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574. e-mail:
Abstract Objective: Medical informatics is an emergent interdisciplinary field described as drawing upon and contributing to both the health sciences and information sciences. The authors elucidate the disciplinary nature and internal structure of the field.
Design: To better understand the field's disciplinary nature, the authors examine the intercitation relationships of its journal literature. To determine its internal structure, they examined its journal cocitation patterns.
Measurements: The authors used data from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to perform intercitation studies among productive journal titles, and software routines from SPSS to perform multivariate data analyses on cocitation data for proposed core journals.
Results: Intercitation network analysis suggests that a core literature exists, one mark of a separate discipline. Multivariate analyses of cocitation data suggest that major focus areas within the field include biomedical engineering, biomedical computing, decision support, and education. The interpretable dimensions of multidimensional scaling maps differ"
The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature
Theodore A. Morris, MLS and Katherine W. McCain, PhD
Affiliations of the authors: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (TAM); Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (KWM).
Correspondence and reprints: Theodore A. Morris, University of Cincinnati Medical Center Academic Information Technology and Libraries, 231 Bethesda Avenue, P.O. Box 670574, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574. e-mail:
Abstract Objective: Medical informatics is an emergent interdisciplinary field described as drawing upon and contributing to both the health sciences and information sciences. The authors elucidate the disciplinary nature and internal structure of the field.
Design: To better understand the field's disciplinary nature, the authors examine the intercitation relationships of its journal literature. To determine its internal structure, they examined its journal cocitation patterns.
Measurements: The authors used data from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to perform intercitation studies among productive journal titles, and software routines from SPSS to perform multivariate data analyses on cocitation data for proposed core journals.
Results: Intercitation network analysis suggests that a core literature exists, one mark of a separate discipline. Multivariate analyses of cocitation data suggest that major focus areas within the field include biomedical engineering, biomedical computing, decision support, and education. The interpretable dimensions of multidimensional scaling maps differ"
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