Quantifying Conceptual Novelty in the Biomedical Literature

Introduces several measures of novelty for a scientific article in MEDLINE based on the temporal profiles of its assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Characterises temporal profiles for all MeSH terms (and pairs of MeSH terms) empirically and models as logistic growth curves. Captures a paper&#...

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Published inD-Lib magazine Vol. 22; no. 9/10; p. 1
Main Authors Mishra, Shubhanshu, Torvik, Vetle I.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Corporation for National Research Initiatives 01.09.2016
Subjects
Data processing
Medical Subject Headings-MeSH
Medicine
MEDLINE
Scholarly publishing
Science publishing
Subject headings
MEDLINE
Bibliometrics
Novelty
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Summary:Introduces several measures of novelty for a scientific article in MEDLINE based on the temporal profiles of its assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Characterises temporal profiles for all MeSH terms (and pairs of MeSH terms) empirically and models as logistic growth curves. Captures a paper's novelty by its youngest MeSH (and pairs of MeSH) as measured in years and volume of prior work. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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smishra8@illinois.edu, vtorvik@illinois.edu
ISSN:1082-9873
1082-9873
DOI:10.1045/september2016-mishra