A Citation Analysis of the Field of Medical Decision Making, 1959-1982

The techniques of citation analysis were used to study the literature of medical decision making, beginning with Ledley and Lusted’s 1959 article in Science. From five experts in the fields of computer-aided diagnosis and clinical decision analysis and from a review of Index Medicus subject headings, we identified 36 documents in the period 1959-70 as a starting point. Articles were provisionally added to this core