MiSearch
MiSearch is a literature search tool that works with NCBI Entrez, and you can use it to rapidly search PubMed citations and see them displayed automatically in order of those most relevant to your research interests.
This relevance ranking is based on a profile of your areas of interest that MiSearch stores from past searches you conduct with MiSearch. MiSearch saves information on citations that you selectively view from the results of a query, and it uses this information to build a statistical profile describing your choices. To do so, MiSearch uses a classification algorithm based on MeSH term, substance names, journal, and author names associated with citations. Two sets are defined. One is the set of articles you have previously clicked on to view. The other is all of PubMed. For each citation in the retrieval set, the algorithm calculates the likelihood that the citation is a member of these two sets. Articles having the highest likelihood of belonging to the set of articles you have viewed are ranked at the top of the list. In search with MiSearch you may create and conduct queries through as many profiles as you like, each reflecting a different areas of interest. Rankings are only relevant to the searches you conduct under a given profile. Use this tool when to get the same results as a PubMed search but ranked by a “personalized” relevance to your topic.
Intended Audiences
Analysts, biomedical researchers, librarians
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