INTRODUCTION Curare is one of the best-examined neurotoxins of the world, which has empirically been used for centuries by American Indigenes. Research on curare has been performed much later, a global scientometric analysis on curare research or its derivates does not yet exist. This bibliometric analysis is part of the global NewQis-project and should illuminate both toxic and historic issues...

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been in use in several different fields of science. Several modeling techniques including Boolean, settheoretic, vector space, and probabilistic models studied. In this paper, we first describe the concept of “LSA” and then present the preliminary results of an exploratory study. We carried out a small-scale bibliometric analysis to find out the impact of LSA ...