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ArticleJournal of biomedical discovery and collaboration2016

Two Similarity Metrics for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): An Aid to Biomedical Text Mining and Author Name Disambiguation.

Neil R Smalheiser, Gary Bonifield

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Article in Journal of biomedical discovery and collaboration, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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2 authors.

Neil R SmalheiserUniversity of Illinois at Chicago. neils@uic.edu.
Gary Bonifield

Funding

LIFE CYCLE EVENTS, PRODUCTIVITY, AND SCIENTIFIC IMPACTP01AG039347 · NIA · NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH · PI BHATTACHARYA, JAY · 2013 to 2018
$5.4M
Text Mining Pipeline to Accelerate Systematic Reviews in Evidence-Based MedicineR01LM010817 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI COHEN, AARON M., SMALHEISER, NEIL R · 2010 to 2019
$4.5M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG039347NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010817
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the present paper, we have created and characterized several similarity metrics for relating any two Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) to each other. The article-based metric measures the tendency of two MeSH terms to appear in the MEDLINE record of the same article. The author-based metric measures the tendency of two MeSH terms to appear in the body of articles written by the same individual (using the 2009 Author-ity author name disambiguation dataset as a gold standard). The two metrics are only modestly correlated with each other (r = 0.50), indicating that they capture different aspects of term usage. The article-based metric provides a measure of semantic relatedness, and MeSH term pairs that co-occur more often than expected by chance may reflect relations between the two terms. In contrast, the author metric is indicative of how individuals practice science, and may have value for author name disambiguation and studies of scientific discovery. We have calculated article metrics for all MeSH terms appearing in at least 25 articles in MEDLINE (as of 2014) and author metrics for MeSH terms published as of 2009. The dataset is freely available for download and can be queried at http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/arrowsmith_uic/mesh_pair_metrics.html. Handling editor: Elizabeth Workman, MLIS, PhD.

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PMID27213780
PMCPMC4845330

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