Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2008
Active research fields in anesthesia: a document co-citation analysis of the anesthetic literature.
The expansion of science has resulted in an increased information flow and in an exponentially growing number of connections between knowledge in different research fields. In this study, we used methods of scientometric analysis to obtain a conceptual network that forms the structure of active scientific research fields in anesthesia. ⋯ Using co-citation analysis, we identified distinct homogenous clusters of highly cited documents representing 46 active current anesthetic research fields and determined multiple nets of knowledge among them.