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GoPubMed December 22, 2007

Posted by western4uk in Search Engines, Searching, Web 2.0.
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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……

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