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ArticleBMC public health2016

Text mining for identifying topics in the literatures about adolescent substance use and depression.

Shi-Heng Wang, Yijun Ding, Weizhong Zhao, Yung-Hsiang Huang, Roger Perkins, Wen Zou, James J Chen

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Article in BMC public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shi-Heng WangDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA.
Yijun DingDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA.
Weizhong ZhaoDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA.
Yung-Hsiang HuangNational Applied Research Laboratories, National Center for High-Performance Computing, No. 7, R&D 6th Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu City, 30076, Taiwan.
Roger PerkinsDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA.
Wen ZouDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA. wen.zou@fda.hhs.gov.
James J ChenDivision of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-20, Jefferson, AR, 72079, USA. jamesj.chen@fda.hhs.gov.
National Center for Toxicological Research · USNational Applied Research Laboratories · TWUnited States Food and Drug Administration · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBoth adolescent substance use and adolescent depression are major public health problems, and have the tendency to co-occur. Thousands of articles on adolescent substance use or depression have been published. It is labor intensive and time consuming to extract huge amounts of information from the cumulated collections. Topic modeling offers a computational tool to find relevant topics by capturing meaningful structure among collections of documents.

methodsIn this study, a total of 17,723 abstracts from PubMed published from 2000 to 2014 on adolescent substance use and depression were downloaded as objects, and Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) was applied to perform text mining on the dataset. Word clouds were used to visually display the content of topics and demonstrate the distribution of vocabularies over each topic.

resultsThe LDA topics recaptured the search keywords in PubMed, and further discovered relevant issues, such as intervention program, association links between adolescent substance use and adolescent depression, such as sexual experience and violence, and risk factors of adolescent substance use, such as family factors and peer networks. Using trend analysis to explore the dynamics of proportion of topics, we found that brain research was assessed as a hot issue by the coefficient of the trend test.

conclusionsTopic modeling has the ability to segregate a large collection of articles into distinct themes, and it could be used as a tool to understand the literature, not only by recapturing known facts but also by discovering other relevant topics.

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AdolescentAdolescent BehaviorData MiningDepressionHumansSubstance-Related DisordersAdolescentDepressionSubstance useText miningTopic model

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