About HotTopics

With the HotTopics feature we created a platform providing various statistics on biomedical literature on base of over millions of PubMed abstracts. We want to provide you an alternative way to get an overview on biomedical literature.

Hot Topics performs bibliometric analysis to show you the growth of publications over time, the key journals, authors, cities, and countries publishing on your topic of interest.

HotTopics time lines show you:

• the absolute count of papers over time for a term and its children
• the relative growth in comparison to the growth of whole PubMed

The top authors, journals, cities, and countries for papers related to a term have been determinded based on the absolute publication count.

Have any of the top authors collaborated? To understand the structure of author networks and to identify key players in a research area Hot Topics shows you the co-author networks at a glance, e.g.: the collaborating authors for the MeSH term 'Alzheimer Disease':

A map of the world showing you the locations of research institutes working on your selected topic.

Please note, that any attempt to quantitative analyses of textual material, no matter how sophisticated it is carried out, can not be guaranteed to be perfect. For example absolute citation frequencies may be misinterpreted. Note that it is not our intention to judge the significance of the contributions of individual scientists or institutions.