Mapping Bioterrorism Agents Research Literature

This paper describes a research effort to map the literature of bioterrorism agents research worldwide using bibliographic analysis, content map analysis, and co-authorship analysis based on Medline data. The objectives of our research are to (a) identify researchers who have expertise in the research domain of bioterrorism agents from the world, (b) identify major institutions and countries where these researchers reside, and (c) identify emerging topics and trends in bioterrorism agents research.