1/25
@helder_nakaya
75 years of research on human diseases in 1 minute
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1482094969443737600/pu/vid/720x720/z4iCNcPoGUNNw4hN.mp4
2/25
@helder_nakaya
This is also an update of the race without COVID-19 (i.e. post from 2019):
https://www.the-scientist.com/image-of-the-day/image-of-the-day--70-years-of-disease-research-66988
3/25
@Acidic36
Am I old or is this illegible? Can’t read shyt
4/25
@helder_nakaya
Try here:
http://sci70.sysbio.tools
5/25
@BjarkeJensen4
Please don't misunderstand, this is not an anti-science statement, on the contrary, but notice how Hypertension has always been high on the list, yet in about 19 out of 20 diagnosed cases the cause of hypertension is unknown. There is so much more to learn!
6/25
@helder_nakaya
I would say this applies to most of the top diseases. So much more to learn indeed
7/25
@helder_nakaya
There are many many papers on cancer (but they were separated by different type of neoplasms).
8/25
@JamesCranley
If ‘acquired immunodeficiency syndromes’ and ‘HIV infection’ were summated you would get a mini version of the covid peak
9/25
@helder_nakaya
You are right. The "redundant" terms came from a pre-compiled list of 500+ terms related to human diseases. There was no way to separate the first SARS from this one, for instance
10/25
@BrettLindenbach
Are these just terms that you though to look up, or does this include all human diseases? I noticed that hepatitis C was not included, although there was a large burst of pubs in the 1990s/2000s. Also, I saw separate categories for HIV and AIDS, was there any overlap?
11/25
@helder_nakaya
We got a list of 500+ terms related to human diseases... hepatitis C could be under HCV. Check the website and choose the infectious diseases option:
http://scy70.sysbio.tools
12/25
@evelynedeleeuw
Brilliant dynamic graphing.
It’d be intriguing to index the bars against the (exploding) number of publication outlets; against competitive grants awarded to these conditions; and actual incidence.
13/25
@helder_nakaya
I would love to get this data (grant awards, funding per subject, etc)
14/25
@ZamboniLab
@helder_nakaya can you make this excluding review articles? It eill be nice to see for covid papers, as it seems to me that the favorite Researchers’ hobby during isolation was to write Covid review articles…
15/25
@helder_nakaya
Will do! And yes, the ratio review/research article for covid was atypical.
16/25
@Toshiki_science
I was quite confused when I saw “Acquired Immunodeficiency” falling off a cliff and then seeing “HIV infection” at some point in the 1990s.
But where did all the resources come from to publish so many papers on COVID-19?!
17/25
@helder_nakaya
That's right. We let the 500+ terms related to human diseases "compete" in this crazy race... even if they were redundant or the pathogen/disease
18/25
@Tim_Sparwasser
PS: I still love this animation (and in fact I use the same argument to illustrate the increasing scientific importance of Tregs and Dendritic Cells in my talks). I'm just concerned about how 'easily publishable' topics are currently skewing impact factors as well...
19/25
@helder_nakaya
This is my major concern as well, Tim. In fact, the goal for downloading 30M+ articles was to expose with graphs that more papers, did not mean more knowledge (not to mention more wisdom).
20/25
@KristoferHedman
Wonderful graphic! Are the numbers publications per year (thus not cumulative)? Did you search the title, abstract or complete articles for key words?
21/25
@helder_nakaya
Not cumulative indeed, Kristofer. We searched the MeSH terms associated with papers according to NCBI
22/25
@AbolfazlGhader2
I can not see very well but
/search?q=#mentalhealth or
/search?q=#stress is there anyway or not?
23/25
@helder_nakaya
mental health disorders are there but under specific terms
24/25
@BettyB2007
I really wish to see this but it says content not available?
25/25
@helder_nakaya
Weird... try here
http://sci70.sysbio.tools
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196