IMIA LaMB WG publications: Medical Concept Representation ‐ the Years Beyond 2000

This conference paper is about  understanding the state of the art  in the context  of “medical concept representation”
It is  a descriptive study based on bibliometrics, simple text mining and a social media survey. Results support the general understanding that the focus of research has moved toward medical ontologies, socially active researchers mention the OBO foundry, SNOMED, and UMLS as key resources. Text mining of most cited literature identifies single noun phrases as “health”, “information”, “clinical”, “knowledge”, “ontology”, “case”, “data”, “ semantic(s)”, “concept” and “representation” as  leading  denominators of the field. Terms as “ontology” and “semantic(s)” .have gained more significance in the last decade.
There is a paradigm shift according to both the socially active group of researchers and bibliometric data, comparing citation ranks of the nineties and the recent decade support this opinion.