@inproceedings{85203f4c34f94212ae5da2035ee84444,
title = "Geographical distribution of biomedical research in the USA and China",
abstract = "We analyze nearly 20 million geocoded PubMed articles with author affiliations. Using K-means clustering for the lower 48 US states and mainland China, we find that the average published paper is within a relatively short distance of a few centroids. These centroids have shifted very little over the past 30 years, and the distribution of distances to these centroids has not changed much either. The overall country centroids have gradually shifted south (about 0.2° for the USA and 1.7° for China), while the longitude has not moved significantly. These findings indicate that there are few large scientific hubs in the USA and China and the typical investigator is within geographical reach of one such hub. This sets the stage to study centralization of biomedical research at national and regional levels across the globe, and over time.",
keywords = "Author affiliation, Bibliographic databases, Clustering, Geocoding",
author = "Yingjun Guan and Jing Du and Torvik, {Vetle I.}",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1145/3127526.3127534",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "40--45",
booktitle = "WOSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, Co-located with 2017 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2017",
address = "United States",
note = "6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, WOSP 2017 ; Conference date: 15-12-2017",
}