AN ANALYSIS OF IEEE PUBLICATIONS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

A previous bibliometric analysis has been reported in [1] and dealt with the all IEEE publications, available through the INSPEC database. Our objective was to see how the scientific contents were evolving over time, what relations might exist between journals and conferences, how the engineering disciplines were identified, etc. It was emphasized that the same study could be applied to specific journals, areas or societies and divisions. In this “A Look at... ” column, the Biomedical Engineering production is examined. Only papers in journals, those linked to the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, have been included. Conference papers have been excluded due to a lack of completeness. The textual analysis relied on the same method known as Factorial Correspondence Analysis (FCA) [2,3]. The frequency of words permits the selection of the most salient terms without using the keywords indicated by the authors or database indexers (which might bring some biases). These words are filtered in such a way that verbs and articles are eliminated. From there, the association of groups of word