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Can literature analysis identify innovation drivers in drug discovery?

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Agarwal, Pankaj, Searls, David B.·2009·Nature Reviews 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
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
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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