Content representation in document titles: a case study with prostaglandin literature

Ghosh, Jata S.

doi:10.1108/eb050450

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“…The data obtained in the present study run in parallel to those of MILLER [8] who found that title searching could retrieve fom• (i. e. 80 percent) relevant MEDLARS (MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System -a computerized literature search service provided by the National Library of Medicine, Maryland) references for every five (i. e. 100 percent) retrieved by lV1EDLARS index terms searching. The findings reported here also closely approximate those of Ghosh [4] where >prostaglandin-terms( occurred in 84.7 percent ofthe 2,742 titles of prostaglandin literature examined. The 80 percent retrievability of documents using the personalized DSEs and their noneponymic synonyms in the titles further compares favorably to the findings of WINDSOR'S [19] where the >DOPA-words( were found to occur in 71 percent of the titles studied as well as to the implications of SARAOEVIO'S study [15] which meant that with the help of titles alone users would be able to identify about 66-75 percent ofthe relevant documents.…”

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Occurrence of Disease and Syndrome Eponyms in the Titles of Medical Literature

Ghosh¹

1975

Methods Inf Med

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No quantitative data on the use of eponyms in medicine are available. This paper attempts to quantify the frequency of occurrence of 91 personalized disease and syndrome eponyms (DSE) in the titles of medical documents. By employing the subject heading-title word correlation technique of Montgomeryand Swansonit was found that 72.2 percent of the 2,435 papers listed in the 1973 Index Medicushad at least one of these 91 candidate DSEs in their titles; another 195 (8.0 percent) titles had the corresponding descriptive or non-eponymic synonyms, and the remaining 480 (19.8 percent) titles did not have either of these two matching elements. Thus, the ratio of occurrence of the personalized DSEs to their descriptive names in the titles of the medical literature examined appeared to be 9:1. It was further noted that, while about 80 percent of the pertinent literature could be retrieved on the basis of a title search with DSEs and their descriptive synonyms, about 20 percent of the relevant documents will be missed.

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Occurrence of Disease and Syndrome Eponyms in the Titles of Medical Literature

Ghosh¹

1975

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“…The lesser-used one, (Montgomery and Swanson 1962;O'Connor 1964;Ghosh 1974), is based on visually examining each title in a specific subject bibliography to see if a certain keyword exists in the title. The other variation of the objective approach, most commonly used, is based on a count of substantive words in the title, and sometimes its total number of words too.…”

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Variation in informativity of titles of research papers in selected humanities journals: A comparative study

Yitzhaki

1997

Scientometrics

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“…Several studies have been published that show a high percentage of relevant papers can be retrieved by use of a key word contained in the title [5,17]. It is a fact that literature about a pharmaceutical product is likely to have the name of that product in the title.…”

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Short-lived Technical Literatures: A Bibliometric Analysis

Worthen¹

1978

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Much work has been completed on the application of quantitative measures to literatures dealing with the subject area devoted to ideas or concepts. Little or no work has been reported on the use of these techniques in an applied situation, on a literature devoted to a scientific product. This study attempts to apply the quantitative measures to such a literature and examine some of the implications of the results in terms of professional action on the part of the librarian or information scientist. Bibliometric techniques developed on long-lived literatures are applicable to short-lived literatures devoted to a sample of two pharmaceutical products.

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Content representation in document titles: a case study with prostaglandin literature

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Occurrence of Disease and Syndrome Eponyms in the Titles of Medical Literature

Occurrence of Disease and Syndrome Eponyms in the Titles of Medical Literature

Variation in informativity of titles of research papers in selected humanities journals: A comparative study

Short-lived Technical Literatures: A Bibliometric Analysis

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