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Trends in scientific activity addressing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: a bibliometric study covering the period 1973–2002

Elías Sanz-Casado1 email, Margarita Ramírez-de Santa Pau2 email, Carlos A Suárez-Balseiro3 email, Isabel Iribarren-Maestro1 email and Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta4 email

Laboratory of Information Metric Studies (LEMI) – Library Science and Documentation Department. Carlos III University of Madrid. Madrid 126, 28903 Getafe, Spain

Spanish Network for Cooperative Research in Neurological Diseases (CIEN) and Spanish Network for Cooperative Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (RCESP). Carlos III Institute of Health. Sinesio Delgado 6, 28029 Madrid, Spain

Observatorio de Estudios Relacionados con la Información (OERI). School of Information Science and Technologies. Puerto Rico University, Recinto de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Applied Epidemiology Department. National Center of Epidemiology. Carlos III Institute of Health. Sinesio Delgado 6, 28029 Madrid, Spain

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BMC Public Health 2006, 6:245doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-245

Published: 6 October 2006

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Additional file 1:

Table 4.doc. Topics registering a frequency > 1%, 1973–2002. Table shows research topics of greatest interest, over the three sub-periods. It shows also absolute and percentage values.

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Table 5.doc. Authors who compose the different clusters, 1973–1982. Table 5 shows authors' clusters in the first sub-period of the study.

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Table 6.doc. Authors who compose the different clusters, 1983–1992. Table 6 presents authors' clusters in the second sub-period of the study.

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Table 7.doc. Authors who compose the different clusters, 1993–2002. Table 7 presents authors' clusters in the final sub-period of the study.

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