Genomics and Applied Biology 2017, Vol.8, No.5, 30-48
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Research Article Open Access
Visualization Map Analysis of Literature on Genomics Research Based on
Bibliometrics of CiteSpace
Chunhe Zhao, Weixi Cui , Junsheng Meng, Xudong Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhao, Lei Wang, Zhanjun Dong
Hebei General Hospital, Hebei, 050051, China
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Received: 13 Nov., 2017
Accepted: 19 Dec., 2017
Published: 29 Dec., 2017
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© 2017 Zhao et al., This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zhao C.H., Cui W.X., Meng J.S., Zhang X.D., Zhao X.Y., Wang L., and Dong Z.J., 2017, Visualization map analysis of literature on genomics research
based on bibliometrics of CiteSpace, Genomics and Applied Biology, 8(5): 30-48 (doi
Abstract
In this paper, we compared the domestic and foreign research situation in the field of genomics from the perspective of
bibliometrics, aiming to provide some references for further study. We retrieved genomics related literature through the Web of
Science and CNKI from 1985 to 2016, and then analyzed the number of published articles, the networks of collaboration among
authors, research institutes and countries, the co-occurrence of keywords and co-citations of the retrieved literature through the
software CiteSpace 4.0.R5 SE. The number of published periodical articles develops in fluctuation and shows a rising trend in
general. The USA holds the largest share of world publications in genomics, the following is the UK and China in order. A core
institution with considerable scale has formed in America and good cooperative relationships have been established between
universities in the institution. Chinese Academy of Sciences is the main research institution in China. The cooperation between the
international institutions is more often and closer than that at home. The researchers with the most articles published in Chinese and
foreign journals are Liu J.Q. and Zhang Y respectively. The main co-occurrence and burst keywords are Pharmacogenomics,
Functional genomics, Comparative genomics, Proteomics, etc. The articles with the highest centrality, highest citation frequency and
highest burst strength are (Yang, 2007), (Lander, 2001) and (Altschul, 1997), respectively. Interagency cooperation should be
enhanced so as to push forward the development of genomics research in China.
Keywords
Genomics; CiteSpace; Bibliometrics; Visualization analysis
Background
Genomics is a discipline which studies on biological genomes to solve the practical problems. It was firstly put
forward by Thomas Roderick in 1986. It covers genome mapping, sequencing, gene tagging and functional
analyzing of the whole genomes (Li and Yin, 2000). Genomics provides information on biological genomes and
systematic utilization of related data in order to work out the significant issues in the fields of biology, industry
and medicine. We retrieved genomics related literature through CNKI and the Web of Science that have been
published since 1985, and then analyzed the authors, institutions, collaboration among institutes and that among
countries, keywords burst and co-occurrence, and co-citations of the retrieved literature through the visualization
analysis software CiteSpace 4.0.R5 SE. We aims to explore the research hot spots and fronts to provide some
references for further study on genomics.
CiteSpace is a citation visualization analysis software developed by Java language, focusing on analyzing the
potential knowledge contained in scientific analysis. Using pathfinder network scaling and co-citation analysis
theory, CiteSpace measures the literature (collection) of a specific domain and explores the key documents that
will or may play an important role on the evolution of a certain knowledge domain or scientific field, which will
be the intellectual turning point of the domain or the creative path that may affect the development of the domain.
Through the knowledge structure and its transformation displayed by visualization network map of citing articles
and its references or keywords, CiteSpace reflects the dynamic evolution of research hot spots in the certain field.
So far, CiteSpace has been widely used in mapping and file management, management science and engineering,
education, public administration, sociology, sport science, basic medicine, theoretical economics, philosophy,
business administration, biology, applied economics, history of science and technology, psychology and other
