This network study examines co-occurrence of keywords in bioethics articles from 1970–2010. Articles are selected from the PubMed database, which contains over  22.1 million references on the life sciences and biomedical topics organized by Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary. Our network represents over 66 million keyword co-occurrences in 123,794 articles, examining high-level topic areas in the field.

This work examines prospects and limitations of citation studies in the humanities. We begin by presenting an overview of bibliometric analysis, noting several barriers to applying this method in the humanities. Following that, we present an experimental tool for extracting and classifying citation contexts in humanities journal articles. This tool reports the bibliographic information about each reference, as well as three features about its context(s): frequency, location-in-document, and polarity. Read more in our article “Citations, Contexts, and Humanistic Discourse.”

Bioethics is a highly interdisciplinary field, drawing together philosophers, theologians, physicians, nurses, public health professionals, policymakers, and more. This work examines disciplinarity in the field literature using bibliometric techinques. This citation analysis reveals which educational backgrounds are most prominent in the literature, as well as patterns of scholarly communication—for example, are philosophers more likely to cite other philosophers rather than physicians (and vice versa) and, if so, to what degree?

Phylo combines data sources, user feedback, and visual analytics to advance the study of the discipline of philosophy. Our work traces the flow of ideas across time by documenting the people, places, and institutions associated with philosophy. As a service to the philosophical community, Phylo also provides free information on professional opportunities and activities, including job listings and placement records.