Comparing frequency of content-bearing words in abstracts and texts in articles from four medical journals: An exploratory study

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 381-384

  Ries, James E ^a,b   Su, Kuichun ^a,b   Peterson, Gabriel ^a,b   Sievert, Maryellen C ^a,b   Patrick, Timothy B ^a   Moxley, David E ^a   Ries, Lawrence D ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstracting and Indexing; Content Bearing Words; Information Retrieval; Word Occurrence

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; CHI-SQUARED TEST; CONTENT-BEARING WORDS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; MEDICAL JOURNALS; NEW ENGLAND; WORD OCCURRENCE;

ABSTRACTING;

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; PUBLICATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PERIODICALS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84888068393     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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