By Robin Milford, MSIS & Gali Halevi, MLS, PhD
In part I of our study on countries the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai collaborates with, we found that our scientists are working with peers the world over. As a follow up, we wanted to discover what subject areas ISMMS scientists collaborate on most frequently.
We collected all keywords associated with over 17,000 articles indexed in Scopus published from 2010- 2015 that have international authors listed along with ISMMS researchers. Each article has a list of keywords assigned to it by indexers, describing the topics covered in it. The word cloud below depicts the top 150 most recurring keywords within these articles – the bigger the word, the more times it occurs as a keyword in the articles.
It turns out that biology, cardiology, and cardiovascular research are frequently co-studied with international collaborators followed by neurology, molecular and oncological research. Other popular areas are gastroenterology, endocrinology, genetic, surgery and mental health, including psychiatry. Also of note are areas such as metabolism, immunology, dermatology, and diabetes.
The variety of research areas and disciplines is demonstrates not only global reach, but also disciplinary richness.