Table 2

Clustering the search results of the PubMed query "Alzheimer Disease [MeSH Term]" using the cluster-by-topic function.

Rank
Topic
Count*


Most recent articles
399
1
Aged, 80 and over
6282
2
Brain
4711
3
Amyloid beta-Protein
3983
4
Neuropsychological Tests
2846
5
Cognition Disorders
2454
6
Neurons
2022
7
Apolipoproteins E
1969
8
Dementia
1897
9
Risk Factors
1791
10
Aging
1616
11
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
1535
12
Tau Proteins
1382
13
Membrane Proteins
1289
14
Caregivers
971
15
Parkinson Disease
899


Not indexed by topic
52


Miscellaneous
4949

42,671 articles were retrieved from PubMed, 87% of which are included in the 15 MeSH-based topical clusters.

Smalheiser et al. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2008 3:2   doi:10.1186/1747-5333-3-2