This month in Special Topics, the focus is on terrorism. On the
10-year papers list, there are three prominent areas of research:
psychological reactions to terrorism, specifically the 9/11 terror
attacks; reports of the 2001 anthrax outbreak; and the more general
psychological construct known as terror management. Other issues
covered in the past decade include public health preparedness for
bioterrorism, the potential for a smallpox bioterror incident, the
concept of immune system recognition of foreign DNA as a cure for
bioterrorism, laws with regard to antiterrorism, and the economic
impact of prevention and post-intervention in terror attacks.
In the past two years, the focus remains largely on issues related
to 9/11: post-terrorism post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience and
emotions post-9/11, and surgical response to 9/11, to name a few.
Other topics garnering attention in the past two years include studies
of suicide bombers’ reasoning, the pathology and pathogenesis of the
2001 anthrax outbreak, and several studies looking at potential
surveillance measures for bioterrorism. The papers are not limited to
US-related terrorist attacks; two papers also look at terrorist
attacks and patient care in Israel.
Methodology
To construct this database,
papers were extracted based on title-supplied keywords for Terrorism. The keywords used were as follows:
counterterror*
OR
antiterror*
OR
bioterror*
OR
terror*
NOT
night terror*
The baseline time span for this database
is 1995-2005 (third bimonthly). The resulting database contained 1,826 (10 years)
and 871 (2 years) papers; 3,172 authors; 54 countries; 673 journals; and
1,146 institutions.
Rankings
Once the database was in place,
it was used to generate the lists of top 20 papers (two- and ten-year
periods), authors, journals,
institutions, and nations, covering a time span of 1995-2005 (third
bimonthly period, a 10-year plus 6 month period).
The top 20 papers are ranked
according to total cites. Rankings for author, journal, institution,
and country are listed in three ways: according to total cites, total
papers, and total cites/paper. The paper thresholds and corresponding
percentages used to determine
scientist, institution, country, and journal rankings according to
total cites/paper, and total papers respectively are as follows:
| Entity: |
Scientists |
Institutions |
Countries |
Journals |
| Thresholds: |
5 |
7 |
3 |
10 |
| Percentage: |
1% |
15% |
50% |
20% |
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