Mina A, Ramlogan R, Tampubolon G, Metcalfe JS "Mapping evolutionary trajectories: Applications to the growth and transformation of medical knowledge " RESEARCH POLICY 36 (5): 789-806 JUN 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: andrea.mina at manchester.ac.uk 

DOI: 10.1016FJ.RESPOL.2006.12.007

Title: Mapping evolutionary trajectories: Applications to the growth and 
transformation of medical knowledge 

Author(s): Mina A, Ramlogan R, Tampubolon G, Metcalfe JS

Source: RESEARCH POLICY 36 (5): 789-806 JUN 2007 

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 57      Times Cited: 0        

Abstract: 
This paper is concerned with the mechanisms through which medical knowledge 
emerges, grows and transforms itself. It is a large-scale empirical 
analysis of the development of treatments for coronary artery disease, 
which is the most common cause of death in developed countries. We uncover 
the structure of medical understanding of the disease and the path-
dependent co-evolution of scientific and technical knowledge in the search 
for solutions to the relevant set of problems. After reviewing a broad 
range of secondary sources and a number of interviews with leading 
clinicians, we use new tools recently developed for the longitudinal 
analysis of large citation networks. We apply them to a bibliographic 
database of 11,240 papers published in the area of coronary artery disease 
between 1979 and 2003 and to a patent dataset of 5136 US patents documents 
granted between 1976 and 2003 for angioplasty-related devices. The results 
are consistent maps, which we critically discuss, of the major scientific 
and technological trajectories associated with one of the most important 
medical procedures of the last 30 years. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights 
reserved. 

Addresses: Mina A (reprint author), Univ Manchester, CRIC, Harold Hankins 
Bldg,Booth St W, Manchester M13 9QH, Lancs England
Univ Manchester, CRIC, Manchester M13 9QH, Lancs England
Univ Manchester, CRESC, ESRC Ctr Res Sociocultural Change, Manchester M13 
9PL, Lancs England

E-mail Addresses: andrea.mina at manchester.ac.uk 

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 
Subject Category: Management; Planning & Development 
IDS Number: 186FB 

ISSN: 0048-7333

Cited References :
*BRIT HEART FDN
COR HEART DIS STAT : 2004   
 *OECD
3 OECD : 2003   
 *OFF TECHN ASS
ASS EFF SAF MED TECH : 1978   
 *WHO
WORLD HLTH REP 1999 : 1999   
 ANDERSON GM
MONITORING THE DIFFUSION OF A TECHNOLOGY - CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS-SURGERY 
IN ONTARIO
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 78 : 251 1988   
 BATAGELJ V
EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS : 2002   
 BATAGELJ V
PAJEK ANAL VISUALIZA 41 : 871 2003   
 BROWN JS
ORGAN SCI 2 : 40 1991   
 CAMPBELL EG
Inside the triple helix: Technology transfer and commercialization in the 
life sciences
HEALTH AFFAIRS 23 : 64 2004   
 COLOMBO A
INTRACORONARY STENTING WITHOUT ANTICOAGULATION ACCOMPLISHED WITH 
INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE
CIRCULATION 91 : 1676 1995   
 COWLEY MJ
SEX-DIFFERENCES IN EARLY AND LONG-TERM RESULTS OF CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY IN 
THE NHLBI PTCA REGISTRY
CIRCULATION 71 : 90 1985   
 CUTLER DM
Is technological change in medicine worth it?
HEALTH AFFAIRS 20 : 11 2001   
 DOSI G
TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES - A SUGGESTED 
INTERPRETATION OF THE DETERMINANTS AND DIRECTIONS OF TECHNICAL CHANGE
RESEARCH POLICY 11 : 147 1982   
 EECKHOUT E
Stents for intracoronary placement: Current status and future directions
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY 27 : 757 1996   
 FISCHMAN DL
NEW ENGLAND J MED : 1994   
 FOLEY JB
SAFETY, SUCCESS, AND RESTENOSIS AFTER ELECTIVE CORONARY IMPLANTATION OF THE 
PALMAZ-SCHATZ STENT IN 100 PATIENTS AT A SINGLE CENTER
AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL 125 : 686 1993   
 FRENCH MH
REV CARDIOVASCULAR M 2 : 1 2002   
 FUCHS VR
HEALTH AFFAIR 20 : 5 2001  

 GARFIELD E
CITATION INDEXING TH : 1979   
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/ci/title.pdf

 GARFIELD E
CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH 
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955   
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/science_v122v3159p108y1955.html

 GARFIELD E
USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/useofcitdatawritinghistofsci.pdf
 
 GARFIELD EG
Location of milestone papers through citation networks
ESSAYS INFORMATION S : 1970   
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p139y1962-73.pdf
 
GELIJNS A
HLTH AFFAIRS SUM : 1994   
 GELIJNS AC
Uncertainty and technological change in medicine
JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS POLICY AND LAW 26 : 913 2001   
 GELIJNS AC
Capturing the unexpected benefits of medical research
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 339 : 693 1998   
 GELIJNS AC
SOURCES IND LEADERSH : 312 1999   
 GRILICHES Z
PATENT STATISTICS AS ECONOMIC INDICATORS - A SURVEY
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 28 : 1661 1990   
 GRUNTZIG AR
NONOPERATIVE DILATATION OF CORONARY-ARTERY STENOSIS - PERCUTANEOUS TRANS-
LUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 301 : 61 1979   
 HOLMES DR
POLYMERIC STENTING IN THE PORCINE CORONARY-ARTERY MODEL - DIFFERENTIAL 
OUTCOME OF EXOGENOUS FIBRIN SLEEVES VERSUS POLYURETHANE-COATED STENTS
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY 24 : 525 1994   
 HUMMON NP
CONNECTIVITY IN A CITATION NETWORK - THE DEVELOPMENT OF DNA THEORY
SOCIAL NETWORKS 11 : 39 1989   
JAFFE AB
PATENTS CITATIONS IN : 2002   
 KAMADA T
AN ALGORITHM FOR DRAWING GENERAL UNDIRECTED GRAPHS
INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS 31 : 7 1989   
 KING SB
Angioplasty from bench to bedside to bench
CIRCULATION 93 : 1621 1996   
 KING SB
The development of interventional cardiology
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY 31 : B64 1998   
 LINKOFF AM
JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 284 : 1839 2000   
 LITTELL CL
INNOVATION IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - READING THE INDICATORS
HEALTH AFFAIRS 13 : 226 1994   
 MACROBERTS MH
PROBLEMS OF CITATION ANALYSIS - A CRITICAL-REVIEW
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 40 : 342 1989   
 METCALFE JS
Emergent innovation systems and the delivery of clinical services: The case 
of intra-ocular lenses
RESEARCH POLICY 34 : 1283 2005   
 MINA A
DIME WORKSH EM MARK : 2006   
 MOKYR J
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS 8 : 119 1998   
 MUELLER RL
THE HISTORY OF INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY - CARDIAC-CATHETERIZATION, 
ANGIOPLASTY, AND RELATED INTERVENTIONS
AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL 129 : 146 1995   
 MULLINS CB
CRITIQUE OF CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
ANNUAL REVIEW OF MEDICINE 28 : 271 1977   
 MULLINS SM
AM J CARDIOL 15 : C3 1984   
 MYLER R
TXB CARDIOVASCULAR M : CH7 2002   
 NELSON RR
On the uneven evolution of human know-how
RESEARCH POLICY 32 : 909 2003   
 PAVITT K
PATENT STATISTICS AS INDICATORS OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES - POSSIBILITIES 
AND PROBLEMS
SCIENTOMETRICS 7 : 77 1985   
 PRICE D
LITTLE SCI BIG SCI : 1963   
 RAMLOGAN R
Networks of knowledge: The distributed nature of medical innovation
SCIENTOMETRICS 70 : 459 2007   
 RAMLOGAN R
UN GROWTH KNOWL WORK : 2004   
 ROSCH J
The birth, early years, and future of interventional radiology
JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY 14 : 841 2003   
 SCHAAF TA
YOUNG HEART : 2001   
 SERRUYS PW
A COMPARISON OF BALLOON-EXPANDABLE-STENT IMPLANTATION WITH BALLOON 
ANGIOPLASTY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 331 : 489 1994   
 SERRUYS PW
ANGIOGRAPHIC FOLLOW-UP AFTER PLACEMENT OF A SELF-EXPANDING CORONARY-ARTERY 
STENT
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 324 : 13 1991   
 SIMPSON JB
A NEW CATHETER SYSTEM FOR CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY 49 : 1216 1982   
 SUWAIDI JA
JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 284 : 1828 2000   
 VINCENTI W
WHAT ENG KNOW THEY K : 1990   
 ZIMAN J
REAL SCI WHAT WHAT M : 2000