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Abstract
This study presents an innovative method for tracking the evolution and repurposing of drugs, leveraging controlled vocabulary systems, specifically CA (Chemical Abstracts) Concept Headings within the SciFindern database. Using thalidomide as a case study, the research demonstrates how tracking article counts over time can uncover information about the substance’s history, properties, uses, and future potential. The analysis involves comparing yearly publication counts of research articles and patents through databases, journal sources, and CA Concept Headings. The findings suggest that monitoring the number of articles by CA Concept Headings published over time can serve as a valuable indicator of the substance’s importance. Such knowledge empowers researchers to develop applications, enhance existing processes, and contribute to advancing science and medicine. The study’s insights have significant implications for the broader field of scientometrics, offering a methodological approach to understanding substance development and impact through bibliometric analysis.
本研究利用受控词汇系统，特别是 SciFindern 数据库中的 CA（化学文摘）概念标题，提出了一种追踪药物演变和再利用的创新方法。该研究以沙利度胺为案例，展示了随着时间的推移追踪文章数量如何揭示该药物的历史、特性、用途和未来潜力等信息。分析包括通过数据库、期刊来源和 CA 概念标题比较研究文章和专利的年度发表数量。研究结果表明，监测一段时间内按 CA 概念标题发表的文章数量，可以作为衡量物质重要性的重要指标。这些知识有助于研究人员开发应用、改进现有流程，并为推动科学和医学发展做出贡献。该研究的见解对更广泛的科学计量学领域具有重要意义，为通过文献计量分析了解物质的发展和影响提供了一种方法论途径。
期刊介绍：
Scientometrics aims at publishing original studies, short communications, preliminary reports, review papers, letters to the editor and book reviews on scientometrics. The topics covered are results of research concerned with the quantitative features and characteristics of science. Emphasis is placed on investigations in which the development and mechanism of science are studied by means of (statistical) mathematical methods.
The Journal also provides the reader with important up-to-date information about international meetings and events in scientometrics and related fields. Appropriate bibliographic compilations are published as a separate section. Due to its fully interdisciplinary character, Scientometrics is indispensable to research workers and research administrators throughout the world. It provides valuable assistance to librarians and documentalists in central scientific agencies, ministries, research institutes and laboratories.
Scientometrics includes the Journal of Research Communication Studies. Consequently its aims and scope cover that of the latter, namely, to bring the results of research investigations together in one place, in such a form that they will be of use not only to the investigators themselves but also to the entrepreneurs and research workers who form the object of these studies.
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