Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Names

"Names" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Names" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Names" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2012
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.