| To create these lists of related articles, PubMed compares words from the title and abstract of each citation, as well as the MeSH headings assigned, using a powerful word-weighted algorithm | Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration |
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| User feedback is invaluable: it has played an enormous role in updates over the 24 years PubMed has been in existence, and it continues to do so | This feature was initially tested in a pilot mode since 2013 and was made permanent in 2016 |
The assignment of a PMID or PMCID to a publication tells the reader nothing about the type or quality of the content.
9| Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare | MEDLINE® contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world |
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| Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association | On the other side, articles more recently incorporated into the database to which descriptors have not yet been assigned will not be found |
PubMed translates this initial search formulation and automatically adds field names, relevant MeSH Medical Subject Headings terms, synonyms, Boolean operators, and 'nests' the resulting terms appropriately, enhancing the search formulation significantly, in particular by routinely combining using the OR operator textwords and MeSH terms.
24| NLM thanks you for using PubMed Health over the years | The 'related articles' function has been judged to be so precise that the authors of a paper suggested it can be used instead of a full search |
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| International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | As this progresses, we would love to hear what you think about these new additions! Weaknesses in the criteria and procedures for indexing journals in PubMed Central may allow publications from predatory journals to leak into PubMed |
Link out is being consolidated with Outside Tool as of the major platform update coming in the Summer of 2019.
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