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ArticleBMJ health & care informatics2021

Network graph representation of COVID-19 scientific publications to aid knowledge discovery.

George Cernile, Trevor Heritage, Neil J Sebire, Ben Gordon, Taralyn Schwering, Shana Kazemlou, Yulia Borecki

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Article in BMJ health & care informatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Expanding Our Understanding of COVID-19 from Biomedical Literature Using Word Embedding.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

George CernileInspirata, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Trevor HeritageInspirata, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Neil J SebireHDRUK, London, UK neil.sebire@hdruk.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5348-9063
Ben GordonHDRUK, London, UK.
Taralyn SchweringInspirata, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Shana KazemlouInspirata, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Yulia BoreckiInspirata, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionNumerous scientific journal articles related to COVID-19 have been rapidly published, making navigation and understanding of relationships difficult.

methodsA graph network was constructed from the publicly available COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of COVID-19-related publications using an engine leveraging medical knowledge bases to identify discrete medical concepts and an open-source tool (Gephi) to visualise the network.

resultsThe network shows connections between diseases, medications and procedures identified from the title and abstract of 195 958 COVID-19-related publications (CORD-19 Dataset). Connections between terms with few publications, those unconnected to the main network and those irrelevant were not displayed. Nodes were coloured by knowledge base and the size of the node related to the number of publications containing the term. The data set and visualisations were made publicly accessible via a webtool.

conclusionKnowledge management approaches (text mining and graph networks) can effectively allow rapid navigation and exploration of entity inter-relationships to improve understanding of diseases such as COVID-19.

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Artificial IntelligenceCOVID-19HumansKnowledge DiscoveryNatural Language ProcessingPeriodicals as TopicSARS-CoV-2BMJ health informaticshealth careinformation sciencemedical informatics

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PMID33419870
PMCPMC7798427

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