Track major trends in neuroscience
Chart the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using this interactive map, based on a semantic analysis by The Transmitter and World Wide Neuro of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals.
Key findings
Most prevalent topic: Alzheimer's disease, appearing in 6.2% percent of the 2024 abstracts we reviewed.
Steepest rise: EEG. The appearance of this topic in the literature has increased by +1.7 percent points over the past five years.
Newest keyword: COVID-19, which first appeared in 2020 but has trended steadily downward since then.
How it works
We analyzed the abstracts of 345,953 publications from leading journals in neuroscience. Using a large language model, we extracted the top 10 salient keywords per abstract.
Track top-trending terms and how terms are related on our map visualization.
Keywords that co-occur frequently appear near each other; color indicates recently trending areas.
Alternatively, take a look at our charts and ranked lists of the most used and trending terms — both overall and in some subfields.
What can you find in the data? And how does your research area fare?
Explore further
Read more about our methods and explore answers to frequently asked questions.
The code and dataset for reproducing the State of Neuroscience analysis are available here.
If you do your own analysis and generate interesting results, share them with us at news@thetransmitter.org.