Topic modeling of major research themes in disease ecology of mammals.

ABSTRACT: Disease ecology is a rapidly growing subdiscipline, and mammals and their parasites feature prominently in both historical and more recent research efforts. Nevertheless, the diversity of topics explored, and those not well explored, has not been systematically assessed. We conducted a systematic review of the published scientific literature in disease ecology of mammals and subjected the collection of original and review articles identified to a topic modeling approach, which is based on the words used in the published texts and their contexts (i.e., the frequency and strength of their semantic relationships with one another). In addition to concept maps identifying the most prominent research themes, we identified eight (not mutually exclusive) subcategories of studies, including experim

SUBMITTER: Han BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6533029 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature