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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018

Autism Research: An Objective Quantitative Review of Progress and Focus Between 1994 and 2015.

Caroline P Whyatt, Elizabeth B Torres

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Autism in Viet Nam: A systematic scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  6. Brain and Language Associations in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Caroline P WhyattPsychology, Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey-Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ, United States.
Elizabeth B TorresPsychology, Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey-Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nosology and epidemiology of Autism has undergone transformation following consolidation of once disparate disorders under the umbrella diagnostic, autism spectrum disorders. Despite this re-conceptualization, research initiatives, including the NIMH's Research Domain Criteria and Precision Medicine, highlight the need to bridge psychiatric and psychological classification methodologies with biomedical techniques. Combining traditional bibliometric co-word techniques, with tenets of graph theory and network analysis, this article provides an objective thematic review of research between 1994 and 2015 to consider evolution and focus. Results illustrate growth in Autism research since 2006, with nascent focus on physiology. However, modularity and citation analytics demonstrate dominance of subjective psychological or psychiatric constructs, which may impede progress in the identification and stratification of biomarkers as endorsed by new research initiatives.

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autismbibliometricsconnectivity metricsgraph theoryquantitative review

Identifiers

PMID30190695
PMCPMC6116169

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