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Programming Languages Popularity in 12,086 Research Papers – QUANTIFYING HEALTH

I analyzed a random sample of 76,147 full-text research papers, uploaded to PubMed Central between the years 2016 and 2021, in order to check the popularity of programming languages among medical researchers.

I used the BioC API to download the articles (see the References section below) of which only 12,086 mentioned the use of at least 1 programming language.

Results

R was the most used programming language overall, mentioned in 69.69% of research papers, followed by Matlab (21.31%) and Python (8.98%).

The 6-year trend showed that the popularity of R and Python is increasing (+1.59% and +1.21%) as opposed to Matlab, which showed a decline of 2.01%.

Here’s a table of the top 14 programming languages used in medical research:

Ranking Programming Language Number of Mentions
(Total: 12086) Mentions
(in Percent) 6-Year Trend 1 R 8423 69.69% +1.59% 2 Matlab 2575 21.31% -2.01% 3 Python 1085 8.98% +1.21% 4 Java 309 2.56% -0.24% 5 Perl 301 2.49% -0.32% 6 C++ 151 1.25% -0.23% 7 JavaScript 97 0.80% – 8 SQL 94 0.78% – 9 PHP 87 0.72% – 10 Visual Basic 40 0.33% – 11 C# 25 0.21% – 12 FORTRAN 25 0.21% – 13 Julia 8 0.07% – 14 Maple 6 0.05% –

⚠ How was the trend calculated?
The 6-year trend is the linear regression coefficient (reported in percent) obtained by regressing “the percent of articles that mention a particular programming language each year” onto the “years” variable. This trend was calculated only for programming languages with more than 100 mentions over the past 6 years, because otherwise, this number will be reflecting the noise more than the trend

References

Comeau DC, Wei CH, Islamaj Doğan R, and Lu Z. PMC text mining subset in BioC: about 3 million full text articles and growing, Bioinformatics, btz070, 2019.