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ASMS Bibliometric Project

Updated for 2025

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Collaborative Co-Author Network Map
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Hot Research Topics Map
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Example of a relatively "cold" (purple) research topic or term, "protein spot", clustered with other, considerably "hotter" proteomics-related terms (green or yellow). The term likely refers to 2D-gel electrophoresis, a technology that has largely been replaced by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in proteomics.

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Featuring the ASMS Membership Collaborative Network 2025 poster and computers for you to use and explore the online tools.

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Excerpted from the ASMS Membership Collaborative Network 2025 poster:

Authors: Magnus Palmblad (Leiden University Medical Center) and Nees Jan van Eck (Leiden University)

OVERVIEW
In the first major overhaul of the ASMS Bibliometric Project since 2020, we transitioned to using the open bibliographic data source OpenAlex. For the first time, we used ORCIDs to identify publishing members of the society. In total, we identified 83,445 publications co-authored by 10,609 past and current members of the ASMS. Visualizations of co-authorship and research topics are publicly available and interactively explorable in VOSviewer Online.

DATA AND METHODS
In this work we started from OpenAlex, a new and open bibliographic data source of scientific papers, authors and institutions1 (named after the Library of Alexandria of classical antiquity). Expanding on previous efforts2 , we then used a rule-based algorithm to match ASMS members to OpenAlex authors using name variants, email addresses, affiliations, and – new for the 2025 update – ORCIDs provided by 1,423 current members. An ASMS member was defined as anyone having been member of the society at any point in the over 10-year period between October 21, 2015 and April 7, 2025. We continued to accumulate journal publications published from 1980-2025 and that list at least two ASMS members as authors. After extensive manual clean-up and validation, we constructed a co-authorship network and visualized it using VOSviewer (version 1.6.20), with attraction/repulsion set to +/- 1 and clustering resolution to 1.00. To improve readability, peripheral members were projected to a rectangular perimeter of height 2.0 and width 3.0. As before, we also created and visualized a term co-occurrence network, based on the titles and abstracts of the co-authored publications, to explore research topics. Finally, we made all visualizations publicly available and interactively explorable using VOSviewer Online/

RESULTS
Based on 83,445 unique publications listing at least two current or recent ASMS members as authors, we constructed a co-publication network of 10,492 members, representing 86,274 co-member links and 251,888 co-member publication pairs (co-authorships). All of these numbers are more than twice those in the 2020 version of the network, suggesting a healthy growth of the field, society, and collaboration and publications between members of ASMS

Add Your ORCID to your ASMS.org Profile

Every five years the ASMS Bibliometric Project undergoes a data update. Starting in 2024, we are collecting ORCID Identifiers in the profile area for all ASMS members. The ORCID iD's entered into ASMS.org profiles will be used to improve the accuracy of the pending bibliometric network update.

ORCID LogoWe encourage all members to update their ASMS.org profile with their ORCID Identifier as soon as possible.
Learn how to Add your ORCID Identifier to your Profile HERE.

2020 Update
Bibliometric Analyses of Hot Research Topics and Collaborative Patterns among ASMS Members in 2020

Magnus Palmblad (Leiden University Medical Center) and Nees Jan van Eck (Leiden University)

In 2020, we revisited and updated the collaborative network of the current and recent members of ASMS using bibliometric methods. Our analysis shows that in May 2020, 4,643 current and former members are connected in a single, large, co-authorship network, including many of the most prolific authors in the field. As in previous analyses, the network shows clear topographical differences between small, PI-driven academic groups and “big science” laboratories. The co-authors with the strongest links have long worked together at the same location.

Looking at research fields, we see hot topics from molecular and cellular biology, clinical mass spectrometry as well as ion mobility, mass spectrometry imaging and computational methods. Fundamental studies in chemistry and instrumentation represent more mature topics among ASMS members, with a more stable number of new publications per year.

The methodology and data acquired at that time were described in a 2018 JASMS article. Both the co-authorship and research topics map below are provided with a number of information overlays, such as scientific seniority, countries and average publication year.