Clustering more than two million biomedical publications: Comparing the accuracies of nine text-based similarity approaches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Boyack, Kevin W ^a   Newman, David ^b,c   Duhon, Russell J ^d   Klavans, Richard ^a   Patek, Michael ^a   Biberstine, Joseph R ^d   Schijvenaars, Bob ^e   Skupin, André ^f   Ma, Nianli ^d   Börner, Katy ^d  

^a SciTech Strategies Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Collexis Inc ^*  (Netherlands)

^f SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952745199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018029     Document Type: Article

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