Ranking MEDLINE documents

Abstract

Background: BioTextRetriever is a Web-based search tool for retrieving relevant literature in Molecular Biology and related domains from MEDLINE. The core of BioTextRetriever is the dynamic construction of a classifier capable of selecting relevant papers among the whole MEDLINE bibliographic database. "Relevant" papers, in this context, means papers related to a set of DNA or protein sequences provided as input to the tool by the user. Methods: Since the number of retrieved papers may be very large, BioTextRetriever uses a novel ranking algorithm to retrieve the most relevant papers first. We have developed a new methodology that enables the automation of the assessment process based on a multi-criteria ranking function. This function combines six factors: MeSH terms, paper's number of citations, author's h-index, journals impact factor, author number of publications and journal similarity function. Results:The best results highlight the number of citations and the h-index factors. Conclusions:We have developed and a multi-criteria ranking function, that contemplates six factors, and that seems appropriate to retrieve relevant papers out of a huge repository such as MEDLINE.

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