PubMed

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• PubMed publications in 2011 by 202 world countries: who’s the winner?

  May 7, 2012 · 4 min read · R

  Which country had the most PubMed citations in 2011? To find out I used R statistical software to analyze the affiliation of 986 427 articles

• How to download complete XML records from PubMed and extract data

  Apr 27, 2012 · 3 min read · R

  Yesterday I wrote an article that looked at the top 20 Cognitive Behavior Therapy journals with the most publications; today I will explain how I did it with R.

• More PubMed data mining: looking at top 20 CBT journals

  Apr 26, 2012 · 2 min read · R

  In this short article I present some data of the top 20 Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) journals with the most PubMed publications, and compare that to data from 2010 and 2011.

• An R Script to Automatically download PubMed Citation Counts By Year of publication

  Apr 19, 2012 · 6 min read · R

  An R script that queries PubMed’s E-utilities for the number of publications per year matching a search term, and plots the trends with ggplot2.

• Ggplot2, PubMed citation frequency and DSM-IV Axis I disorders by year

  Mar 31, 2012 · 2 min read · R

  I searched PubMed for several major DSM-IV disorders and downloaded the hits. Using ggplot2 I plotted the number of publications each year for each disorder