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A novel subject-delineation strategy has been developed for the retrieval of the core literature in bioinformatics. The strategy combines textual components with bibliometric, citation-based techniques. This bibliometrics-aided search strategy is applied to the 1980–2004 annual volumes of the Web of Science. Retrieved literature has undergone a structural as well as quantitative analysis. Patterns of national publication activity, citation impact and international collaboration are analysed for the 1990s and the new millennium.
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Glänzel, W., Janssens, F. & Thijs, B. A comparative analysis of publication activity and citation impact based on the core literature in bioinformatics. Scientometrics 79, 109–129 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0407-1
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