pubmed_query_title-abstract_terms.R

require(RISmed);
require(ggplot2);

makeJournalQuery <- function( journals ) {
  query <- paste( "(" , paste( "\"", journals, "\"[Journal]", sep="", collapse=" OR " ), ")", sep="" );

    return ( query );
}

queryPapers <- function( year, query, journals ) {
  query <- paste( '((', query, '[Title/Abstract]) AND ("', year,'"[Date - Publication]) AND ', makeJournalQuery( journals ), ')', sep="" )
  queryPubs <- EUtilsSummary( query, type='esearch', db='pubmed' )
  
  all <- paste( '(("', year,'"[Date - Publication]) AND ', makeJournalQuery( journals ), ')', sep="" )
  allPubs <- EUtilsSummary( all, type='esearch', db='pubmed' )
  
  return ( list(queryPubs=queryPubs@count,allPubs=allPubs@count) );
}

queryPapersRange <- function( query, journals, startYear, endYear ) {
  
  years <- c();
  queryTerms <- c();
  queryPubs <- c();
  allPubs <- c();
  percentQueryPubs <- c();
  journalList <- c();
  
  count <- 1;
  
  for (year in startYear:endYear) {
    result <- queryPapers( year, query, journals );
    
    years <- rbind( years, year );
    queryPubs <- rbind( queryPubs, result$queryPubs );
    allPubs <- rbind( allPubs, result$allPubs );
    percentQueryPubs <- rbind( percentQueryPubs, result$queryPubs/result$allPubs * 100 );  
    queryTerms <- rbind( queryTerms, query )
    journalList <- rbind( journalList, paste( journals, collapse="|" ) );
    
    count <- count + 1;
  }
  
  return ( data.frame( years=years, query=queryTerms, queryPubs=queryPubs, allPubs=allPubs, percentQueryPubs=percentQueryPubs, journals=journalList, row.names=years ) );
}


multiQueryPapersRange <- function( queries, journalsList, startYear, endYear ) {
  results <- data.frame();
  
  for ( i in 1:length( queries ) ) {
    for ( j in 1:length( journalsList ) ) {
      results <- rbind( results, queryPapersRange( query=queries[i], journals=journalsList[[j]], startYear, endYear ) );
    } 
  } 
  
  return ( results );
}

plotResults <- function( queries, journalsList, startYear, endYear, relative=TRUE ) {
  results <- multiQueryPapersRange( queries, journalsList, startYear, endYear );

  if ( relative ) {
    ggplot( results, aes( years, percentQueryPubs, group=interaction(factor(query),factor(journals)))) + scale_x_continuous(breaks=startYear:endYear) + scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, max(results$percentQueryPubs))) + geom_line(aes(color=interaction(factor(query),factor(journals)))) + ggtitle( paste( "\"", paste( queries, collapse="|" ), "\" in abstracts and titles of \n", paste( unique(results$journals), collapse="+" ), " articles", sep="") ) + labs( x="year", y=paste("% publications mentioning query terms", sep="") ) + guides(color=guide_legend(title=NULL)) + theme(legend.position="top");
  }
  else {
    ggplot( results, aes( years, queryPubs, group=interaction(factor(query),factor(journals)))) + scale_x_continuous(breaks=startYear:endYear) + scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, max(results$queryPubs))) + geom_line(aes(color=interaction(factor(query),factor(journals)))) + ggtitle( paste( "\"", paste( queries, collapse="|" ), "\" in abstracts and titles of \n", paste( unique(results$journals), collapse="+" ), " articles", sep="") ) + labs( x="year", y=paste("# publications mentioning query terms", sep="") ) + guides(color=guide_legend(title=NULL)) + theme(legend.position="top");
  }
}

Revision 4:

plotResults( c( "user-friendly" ),
             list( c( "IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics","IEEE computer graphics and applications"),
                   c( "Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)", "BMC bioinformatics")),
             2000, 2015 );

plotResults( c( "cancer", "oncogene", "tumor suppressor" ), list( c( "Nature" ), c( "Science" ) ), 1960, 2015 );

plotResults( c( "ontology" ), list( c( "Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)", "BMC bioinformatics") ), 2000, 2015 );