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.

本数据库收录了2014年关于埃博拉病毒生物医学文献的数据。通过PubMed搜索引擎确定了文献的卷数及分类。数据按照不同标准进行排序。列名/行标题及嵌入的注释描述了各列/行内容。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搜索下载的csv文件。关于方法论和数据的相关信息包含在相关文章中。本数据库及相关figshare条目中提及的所有数据和图表均链接至数据库的相关工作表。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/摘要中包含特定搜索词的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）中具有摘要的比例。图16展示了2014年，标题/摘要中包含搜索词‘临床试验’的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）的比例，同时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对2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的文献进行了主观分类，以聚焦于‘当前疫情’。剩余的引用被分配至一个（且仅一个）指定的学科/领域分类中。图20展示了2014年标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的文献，按月对当前疫情的关注或指定学科/领域分类进行了主观分类。与图19类似，引用被分配至一个（且仅一个）类别中。图21展示了2014年标题/摘要中包含搜索词‘outbreak’的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）的数量。图22展示了2014年标题/摘要中包含搜索词‘Africa’的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）的数量。图23展示了2014年标题/摘要中包含搜索词‘vaccine’或‘vaccines’的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）的数量。图24展示了20个国家中，总生物医学出版物数量最多的国家的总生物医学引用数量。图25展示了20个国家中，总生物医学出版物数量最多的国家的标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量。图28展示了20个国家中，总生物医学出版物数量最多的国家中具有摘要的总引用数量。图29展示了20个国家中，总生物医学出版物数量最多的国家中标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用数量。图31展示了6个国家中，与埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的国家的引用（‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’在标题中）的数量。其中，具有摘要的引用数量也予以展示。图32展示了国家归属赋值方法的‘手动’控制测试。展示了6个国家中，与埃博拉病毒相关出版物数量最多的国家中标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’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’且具有适当国家归属的出版物数量均予以标明。100%的引用至少有一位（‘任何作者’）具有适当的国家归属，从而证明了方法的准确性。图33展示了美国和加拿大，这两个国家具有最多的具有摘要的埃博拉病毒相关出版物，对这些国家标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用进行了主观分类。图34展示了美国和加拿大，这两个国家具有最多的具有摘要的埃博拉病毒相关出版物，对这些国家标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’且具有摘要的引用的学科/领域进行了主观分类。除了与2014年疫情的具体方面相关的引用可以可选地额外分配至其他类别外，引用仅分配至更相关的类别。图35展示了3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和标题中包含‘ebola’或‘ebolavirus’的引用数量，这三个国家是埃博拉病毒病例最多的国家。