Aminpour, Farzaneh and Kabiri, Payam Bioinformatics, Health Informatics & Medical Informatics: Who searches for what?, 2007 . In International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT`07), Antalya (Turkey), April 30-May 2, 2007. [Conference paper]
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Google Trends is a Google Labs product which provide insights into broad search patterns. In other words, Google Trends allows you to see what the world is searching for. It analyzes Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for a specific term over the time. It shows the news reference volume & search reference volume graphs as well as the top cities, regions and languages searching a specific term. Using Google Trends, we studied the people's patterns and habits in searching the terms "Bioinformatics", "Health Informatics" & "Medical Informatics". The results show that the users search "Bioinformatics" more than the other two terms. The most searches for "Bioinformatics" were done from India, Kenya, Bangladesh, Singapore & Pakistan. Checking the most frequent languages used for these searches, we determined top 5 languages as Hindi, Korean, Greek, English and Thai which once again confirmed the role of India in this field. Doing the same process for "Health Informatics" as the other keyword, we identified Ireland, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Canada as the top countries in searching this term; London Colney, Halifax, Dublin, Sydney and London as the top cities; and English, Chinese, Icelandic, Hindi and Czech as the most frequent languages. Considering "Medical Informatics", the most searches have done from Greece, Iran, India, Taiwan and Philippines. The overall results suggest that "Bioinformatics" are more searched than "Health Informatics" and "Medical Informatics". Different countries are interested in different fields of these terms. The dominant search term is "Bioinformatics" and the dominant country in searching this term is India. UK, New Zealand and Australia are more interested in "Health Informatics" while, Iran and Turkey are considerable in searching the term "Medical Informatics". The search patterns of cities may different form the related countries.
| Item type: | Conference paper |
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| Keywords: | Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Information Retrival Systems, Internet Search engines |
| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages. L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DK. Health libraries, Medical libraries. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. |
| Depositing user: | Farzaneh Aminpour |
| Date deposited: | 16 Aug 2007 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:09 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10220 |
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