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Using Incomplete Citation Data For Medline Results Ranking., Jorge R Herskovic, Elmer V Bernstam
Using Incomplete Citation Data For Medline Results Ranking., Jorge R Herskovic, Elmer V Bernstam
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Information overload is a significant problem for modern medicine. Searching MEDLINE for common topics often retrieves more relevant documents than users can review. Therefore, we must identify documents that are not only relevant, but also important. Our system ranks articles using citation counts and the PageRank algorithm, incorporating data from the Science Citation Index. However, citation data is usually incomplete. Therefore, we explore the relationship between the quantity of citation information available to the system and the quality of the result ranking. Specifically, we test the ability of citation count and PageRank to identify "important articles" as defined by experts …