Bringing Web 2.0 to Pubmed, GoPubMed provides a new slice’em and dice’em approach to searching. Instantly showing information about:

• What – references retrieved, what terms have been used to describe them and the quantity used, incredibly simple to use to narrow a search down to relevant material
• Who – who’s writing on the subject searches and in what quantity
• Where – what’s the geography of the material retrieved like
• When – when was material published

This is all done quickly and effectively and is impressive for finding material of relevance.

The feature that’ll be a Fade favourite is the statistical data on retrieved results that can be displayed.  This gives an overview of the literature located by a search by detailing information on:

• Top indexing terms
• Top authors
• Top countries of publication
• Top cities of publication
• Top journal titles material was published in
• Top years of publication
• Quantity of publications over time
• World map of the geography of citations located

There are features allowing you to assess the relevance of data mined terms if you become a curator at this service (not a painful process it just requires you to supply an email address) to help train the ontology-based search algorithms used here.  Maybe for later……