Dataset and selected figures of biomedical publications on Ebola in 2014

The database contains data about the biomedical publications on Ebola in 2014.The volumes of publications and the classifications were determined by using the PubMed search engine. The data are ordered according to different criteria. Columns/row headings and embedded comments describe the contents of the columns/rows. Columns A-K of sheets ‘Clinical Trial term’, ‘Canada’, ‘China’, ‘France’, ‘Germany’, ‘Guinea’, ‘Liberia’, ‘Sierra Leone’, ‘UK’, ‘USA’ were from csv files downloaded from PubMed searches.Further information about the methodology and the data is contained in the associated article. All data and figures mentioned in the associated article and this figshare entry are linked to a sheet of this database.
Figure 3Numbers of citations with ‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title from 1995 to 2014.
Figure 4Numbers of citations (abstract available) with ‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title from 1995 to 2014.
Figure 5Proportions of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available from 2005 to 2014.
Figure 15Proportions of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available with the indicated search terms in the title/abstract. Year 2014.
Figure 16Proportions of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with the search term ‘clinical trial’ in the title/abstract. The number of publications about original clinical trial studies is also indicated. Year 2014.
Figure 17Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) per month. Year 2014.
Figure 18Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available per month. Year 2014.
Figure 19Subjective classification for ‘current outbreak’ focus of 2014 citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title). Remaining citations were assigned to one (and only one) of the indicated discipline/area categories. Year 2014.
Figure 20Subjective classification for current outbreak focus or, alternatively, for the indicated discipline/area categories of 2014 citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) per month. Citations were assigned to one (and only one) category, similarly to Figure 19. Year 2014.
Figure 21Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) during 2014 with search term ‘outbreak’ in title/abstract.
Figure 22Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) during 2014 with search term ‘Africa’ in title/abstract.
Figure 23Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) during 2014 with search terms ‘vaccine’ or ‘vaccines’ in title/abstract.
Figure 24Numbers of total biomedical citations of the 20 countries with most total biomedical publications. Year 2014.
Figure 25Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) of the 20 countries with most total biomedical publications. Year 2014.
Figure 28Numbers of total citations with abstract available of the 20 countries with most total biomedical publications. Year 2014.
Figure 29Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available of the 20 countries with most total biomedical publications. Year 2014.
Figure 31Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) of the six countries with most Ebola-related publications. Citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available are also shown. Year 2014.
Figure 32‘Manual’ control test of the method for country affiliation attribution.Numbers of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available of the six countries with most Ebola-related publications. The numbers of publications automatically retrieved or with real ‘any author’, ‘first author’ or ‘last author’ with the proper country affiliation are indicated. 100% of the citations had at least one author (‘any author’) with the proper country affiliation, thus indicating accuracy of the method. Year 2014.
Figure 33Subjective classification for article type of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available of the United States and Canada, the two countries with most Ebola-related publications with abstract available. Year 2014.
Figure 34Subjective classification for discipline/area of citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) with abstract available of the United States and Canada, the two countries with most Ebola-related publications with abstract available. Citations were assigned only to the more relevant category, except citations related to specific aspects of the 2014 outbreak that were assigned optionally and in addition to the other categories. Year 2014.
Figure 35
Numbers of total biomedical citations and citations (‘ebola’ or ‘ebolavirus’ in title) of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three countries with most Ebola cases. Year 2014.

该数据库收录了2014年关于埃博拉病毒的生物医学文献数据。文献的出版量及分类均通过PubMed搜索引擎进行确定。数据按照不同标准进行排序。列标题及嵌入的注释描述了各列的内容。工作表‘临床试验术语’、‘加拿大’、‘中国’、‘法国’、‘德国’、‘几内亚’、‘利比里亚’、‘塞拉利昂’、‘英国’、‘美国’的A-K列数据来源于从PubMed搜索中下载的csv文件。关于方法论和数据的相关信息包含在相关的文章中。本数据库中提及的所有数据和图表均与相关文章及本figshare条目中的工作表相链接。图3展示了1995年至2014年间，标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量。图4展示了1995年至2014年间，标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用数量。图5展示了2005年至2014年间，标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用比例。图15展示了2014年，标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用比例，并按标题/摘要中的指定搜索词进行分类。图16展示了2014年，标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且标题/摘要中包含‘临床试验’的引用比例，并指出了关于原始临床试验研究的出版物数量。图17展示了2014年每月标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量。图18展示了2014年每月标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用数量。图19展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用关于‘当前疫情’的专题分类。剩余的引用被分配到指定的学科/领域类别中。图20展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用关于‘当前疫情’的专题分类或指定的学科/领域类别，并按月展示。引用被分配到唯一的一个类别中，与图19类似。图21展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用，其中标题/摘要中包含‘outbreak’的搜索词。图22展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用，其中标题/摘要中包含‘Africa’的搜索词。图23展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用，其中标题/摘要中包含‘vaccine’或‘vaccines’的搜索词。图24展示了2014年，总生物医学出版物数量最多的20个国家的总生物医学引用数量。图25展示了2014年，总生物医学出版物数量最多的20个国家的标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量。图28展示了2014年，总生物医学出版物数量最多的20个国家的标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用且具有摘要的引用数量。图29展示了2014年，总生物医学出版物数量最多的20个国家的标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用且具有摘要的引用数量。图31展示了2014年，关于埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的六个国家的引用数量，其中标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用且具有摘要的引用数量也一并展示。图32展示了国家归属分配方法的‘手动’控制测试。2014年，关于埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的六个国家的标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用且具有摘要的引用数量，自动检索的出版物或具有真实‘任何作者’、‘第一作者’或‘最后作者’且具有正确国家归属的出版物数量也被指出。100%的引用至少有一位（‘任何作者’）具有正确的国家归属，从而证明了该方法的高准确性。图33展示了2014年，关于埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的两个国家（美国和加拿大）的引用的专题分类，这两个国家的引用具有摘要。图34展示了2014年，关于埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的两个国家（美国和加拿大）的引用的学科/领域分类，这些引用仅被分配到更相关的类别中，除了与2014年疫情特定方面相关的引用外，这些引用被可选地分配，并且作为其他类别的补充。图35展示了2014年，关于埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的三个国家（塞拉利昂、利比里亚和几内亚）的总生物医学引用数量以及标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量。