BibMedEd

Bibliometric Analysis Platform for Medical Education

BibMedEd is an open-source tool that enables medical education researchers to search bibliographic databases and perform comprehensive bibliometric analysis — all in one integrated platform. It replaces the fragmented workflow of PubMed search + Covidence + VOSviewer + CiteSpace + Excel.

Features

• Multi-database search — Query PubMed, OpenAlex, and any database with a community adapter
• Automated deduplication — Cross-database dedup by DOI and PMID
• Six analysis modules — Publications, authors, countries, keywords, citations, journals
• Interactive visualizations — D3.js co-authorship and keyword co-occurrence networks
• Reproducible methodology — Every pipeline step logged and exportable as a citable .txt file
• Standard exports — .RIS (Zotero/EndNote), .CSV (Excel/Sheets), methodology log

User Interface Tour

The BibMedEd Agentic QA recording demonstrates the dynamic features, layout scaling, and state preservation:

Dashboard Analysis & Search Pipeline

The system gracefully visualizes bibliometric markers and updates fetching blocks via Celery sockets.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/ata381/BibMedEd
cd BibMedEd/bibmeded
docker compose up

Open http://localhost:3000 and start analyzing.

See the Self-Hosting Guide for configuration options.

Extend It

BibMedEd uses a plug-and-play adapter pattern. Adding a new data source is a single Python file (~50 lines) that implements three methods. See the Writing Adapters guide.

Cite

If you use BibMedEd in your research, please cite:

@software{bibmeded,
  title={BibMedEd: Bibliometric Analysis Platform for Medical Education},
  author={Akillioglu, Ata},
  year={2026},
  url={https://github.com/ata381/BibMedEd},
  doi={10.5281/zenodo.20404321}
}

The canonical machine-readable citation is CITATION.cff — GitHub's "Cite this repository" button generates BibTeX from it automatically.

License

MIT