Literature Search on Glycoscience Research

Objective :
This literature search was conducted to note and describe trends/topics of interest in Glycoscience and its position in life science research.
Method :
This search was manually performed using Pubmed, covering the years between 1950 - 2009 in five-year intervals.
Search terms were selected by the Glycoforum. Therefore, our results should be viewed as as exploratory, not definitive.
See appendix for terms and queries used in the search.pdf download
Editorial supervisors :
Akemi Suzuki (Tokai University)
Masaki Yanagishita (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Time conducted :
October 24 - December 7, 2011
Information Source:
Pubmed
PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
It comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books, from approximately 5,400 journals published in the United States and more than 80 other countries. (December, 2011)
Search categories:
Number of papers registered in Pubmed searched by:
  1. Four major areas in glycoscience  DATA
  2. Terms related to glycoscience research  DATA
  3. Terms related to life phenomenon, combined search with the four major glycoscience research areas  DATA
  4. Terms related to substance, combined search with the four major glycoscience research areas  DATA
  5. Terms related to diseases, combined search with the four major glycoscience research areas (Cancer related terms)  DATA
  6. Major country (affiliation) of the first author  DATA
  7. Major journals  DATA
Search rules:
  Search tags Description
Overall All Fields Searched by all possible Pubmed fields
Journal Journal Searched by journal titles
Country All Fields Searched by country of the first author of the paper
Publication date Publication Date Searched by the date the article was published