While new research themes born from original ideas and unexpected ideas are born one after another, the Nobel Prize-class research themes will be born independently of these research trends. Ryosuke Ohba and Aiko Hibino, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, found out.
According to Hirosaki University, Associate Professor Oba and his colleagues used the database "PubMed" operated by the National Library of Medicine in the fields of life science and medicine to analyze about 1970 million papers published from 2017 to 3,000 and are new. We investigated how keywords such as phenomena, diseases, and substance names that make up the research theme increased in subsequent papers.
As a result, it was found that 7% of the cases where a new research theme creates the next new research theme, and that the new research theme repeatedly creates a new theme while changing the contents little by little.
However, it was also found that the new theme, which can be said to be the Nobel Prize, is born, accounting for 7% of the total, regardless of this process, and has little connection with the fashion of research themes.
Paper information:[Scientometrics] Generating process of Emerging Topics in the life sciences
