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ArticleInternational journal of medical informatics2019

ProvCaRe: Characterizing scientific reproducibility of biomedical research studies using semantic provenance metadata.

Satya S Sahoo, Joshua Valdez, Matthew Kim, Michael Rueschman, Susan Redline

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Article in International journal of medical informatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Satya S SahooDepartment of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. Electronic address: satya.sahoo@case.edu.
Joshua ValdezDepartment of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Matthew KimDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Michael RueschmanDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Susan RedlineDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR)R24HL114473 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI REDLINE, SUSAN S., ZHANG, GUO-QIANG · 2013 to 2017
$7.5M
A PROV standard-based data source agnostic provenance engine for Big Data analytics (Supplement)U01EB020955 · NIBIB · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI SAHOO, SATYA SANKET · 2015 to 2017
$1.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R24 HL114473NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB020955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveReproducibility of research studies is key to advancing biomedical science by building on sound results and reducing inconsistencies between published results and study data. We propose that the available data from research studies combined with provenance metadata provide a framework for evaluating scientific reproducibility. We developed the ProvCaRe platform to model, extract, and query semantic provenance information from 435, 248 published articles.

methodsThe ProvCaRe platform consists of: (1) the S3 model and a formal ontology; (2) a provenance-focused text processing workflow to generate provenance triples consisting of subject, predicate, and object using metadata extracted from articles; and (3) the ProvCaRe knowledge repository that supports "provenance-aware" hypothesis-driven search queries. A new provenance-based ranking algorithm is used to rank the articles in the search query results.

resultsThe ProvCaRe knowledge repository contains 48.9 million provenance triples. Seven research hypotheses were used as search queries for evaluation and the resulting provenance triples were analyzed using five categories of provenance terms. The highest number of terms (34%) described provenance related to population cohort followed by 29% of terms describing statistical data analysis methods, and only 5% of the terms described the measurement instruments used in a study. In addition, the analysis showed that some articles included a higher number of provenance terms across multiple provenance categories suggesting a higher potential for reproducibility of these research studies.

conclusionThe ProvCaRe knowledge repository (https://provcare. CASE: edu/) is one of the largest provenance resources for biomedical research studies that combines intuitive search functionality with a new provenance-based ranking feature to list articles related to a search query.

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AlgorithmsBiological OntologiesSemanticsBiomedical ResearchHumansMetadataReproducibility of ResultsProvCaRe knowledge repositoryProvCaRe ontologyProvenance-based rankingProvenance metadataS3 modelScientific reproducibilityW3C PROV specifications

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PMCPMC6343667

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