Can literature analysis identify innovation drivers in drug discovery?
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Drug discovery must be guided not only by medical need and commercial potential, but also by the areas in which new science is creating therapeutic opportunities, such as target identification and the understanding of disease mechanisms. To systematically identify such areas of high scientific activity, we use bibliometrics and related data-mining methods to analyse over half a terabyte of data, including PubMed abstracts, literature citation data and patent filings. These analyses reveal trends in scientific activity related to disease studied at varying levels, down to individual genes and pathways, and provide methods to monitor areas in which scientific advances are likely to create new therapeutic opportunities.
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- Authors
- Agarwal, P., & Searls, D. B.
- Affiliations
- GlaxoSmithKline (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Agarwal, Pankaj
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 865-878
- ISSN
- 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1784
- PMC
- PMC7097144
- OpenAlex
- W1987180264
- Cited by
- 100
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 0.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Strong
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Keywords
- drug discovery, innovation drivers, target identification, disease mechanisms, bibliometric analysis, patent applications, PubMed abstracts, data mining
- MeSH terms
- Drug Industry, Humans, Publications, Research Design, Bibliometrics, Drug Delivery Systems, Drug Discovery
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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