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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2023

Notes on the data quality of bibliographic records from the MEDLINE database.

Robin Bramley, Stephen Howe, Haralambos Marmanis

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robin BramleyCopyright Clearance Center Limited, Ivory House, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8958-8087
Stephen HoweCopyright Clearance Center Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3416-0048
Haralambos MarmanisCopyright Clearance Center Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5617-3344

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The US National Library of Medicine has created and maintained the PubMed® database, a collection of over 33.8 million records that contain citations and abstracts from the biomedical and life sciences literature. This database is an important resource for researchers and information service providers alike. As part of our work related to the creation of an author graph for coronaviruses, we encountered several data quality issues with records from a curated subset of the PubMed database called MEDLINE. We provide a data quality assessment for records selected from the MEDLINE database and report on several issues ranging from parsing issues (e.g. character encodings and schema definition weaknesses) to low scores for identifiers against several data quality metrics (e.g. completeness, validity and uniqueness). Database URL  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Indexed as

Data AccuracyDatabases, FactualMEDLINENational Library of Medicine (U.S.)PubMedUnited States

Identifiers

PMID37935584
PMCPMC10630407

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.