Information retrieval techniques have been applied to biomedical research for a variety of purposes, such as textual document retrieval and molecular data retrieval. As biomedical research evolves over time, information retrieval is also constantly facing new challenges, including the growing number of available data, the emerging new data types,…

A citation analysis was conducted to assess the impact of electronic journals on scholarly communities and their research. The article discusses data collection methods (the Institute of Scientific Information's indexes, searchable via DIALOG), explains searches done on particular record fields, and identifies the most frequently cited electronic…