1Office of Naval Research, 875 N. Randolph St., Arlington, VA, 22217*.
2National Center for Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
3Faculty of Medicine, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey.
*Presently at the MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, 22102.
Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global anthrax research literature. An anthrax-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) (SCI, 2006) databases. The anthrax research literature infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/institutions/countries, most cited authors/journals/documents) was obtained using bibliometrics, and the anthrax research literature technical structure (hierarchical taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/document clustering.
Anthrax, Bacillus anthracis, anthraxin, bioterrorism, biowarfare, bioweapons, biological weapons, biodefence, biosecurity, biosurety, information technology, text mining, bibliometrics, citation analysis, computational linguistics, clustering, taxonomy
