A Metric Approach to Hot Topics in Biomedicine via Keyword Co-occurrence

Purpose To reveal the research hotpots and relationship among three research hot topics in biomedicine, namely CRISPR, i PS (induced Pluripotent Stem) cell and Synthetic biology. Design/methodology/approach We set up their keyword co-occurrence networks with using three indicators and information visualization for metric analysis. Findings The results reveal the main research hotspots in the three topics are different, but the overlapping...