Tanaka LY, Herskovic JR, Iyengar MS, Bernstam EV "Sequential result refinement for searching the biomedical literature" Journal of Biomedical Informatics 42(4):678-684, August 2009

[Eugene Garfield]

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E-mail Addresses: lent at hawaii.edu, jorge.R.Herskovic at uth.tmc.edu, 
M.Sriram.lyengar at uth.tmc.edu, Elmer.V.Bernsta-m at uth.tmc.edu  


TITLE :  Sequential result refinement for searching the biomedical 
literature 

Author(s): Tanaka LY (Tanaka, L. Y.)1,2, Herskovic JR (Herskovic, J. R.)2, 
Iyengar MS (Iyengar, M. S.)2, Bernstam EV (Bernstam, E. V.)2,3  

Source: JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS    Volume: 42    Issue: 4    
Pages: 678-684    Published: AUG 2009  
  
Times Cited: 0     References: 37     Citation Map 
     
Conference Information: National Library of Medicine Training Conference
Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, JUL 24-25, 2007  

Abstract: 
Information overload is a problem for users of MEDLINE, the database of 
biomedical literature that indexes over 17 million articles. Various 
techniques have been developed to retrieve high quality or important 
articles. Some techniques rely on using the number of citations as a 
measurement of an article's importance. Unfortunately, citation information 
is proprietary, expensive, and suffers from "citation lag." MEDLINE users 
have a variety of information needs. Although some users require high 
recall, many users are looking for a "few good articles" on a topic. For 
these users, precision is more important than recall. We present and 
evaluate a method for identifying articles likely to be highly cited by 
using information available at the time of listing in MEDLINE. The method 
uses a score based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms, journal impact 
factor (JIF), and number of authors. This method can filter large MEDLINE 
result sets (>1000 articles) returned by actual user queries to produce 
small, highly cited result sets. 

Document Type: Proceedings Paper  
Language: English  

Reprint Address: Tanaka, LY (reprint author), Univ Hawaii, John A Burns Sch 
Med, Kapiolani Med Ctr Women & Children, Dept Pediat, 1319 Punahou St 7th 
Floor, Honolulu, HI 96826 USA  


Addresses: 
1. Univ Hawaii, John A Burns Sch Med, Kapiolani Med Ctr Women & Children, 
Dept Pediat, Honolulu, HI 96826 USA   
2. Univ Texas Houston, Hlth Sci Ctr, Sch Hlth Informat Sci, Houston, TX 
77030 USA   
3. Univ Texas Houston, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Houston, TX 77030 USA  

E-mail Addresses: lent at hawaii.edu, jorge.R.Herskovic at uth.tmc.edu, 
M.Sriram.lyengar at uth.tmc.edu, Elmer.V.Bernsta-m at uth.tmc.edu  

Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN 
DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA  

IDS Number: 468UB  
ISSN: 1532-0464  
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.02.009  

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