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Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 18;8(1):6193. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24571-0.
There are more than 26 million peer-reviewed biomedical research items according to Medline/PubMed. This breadth of information is indicative of the progress in biomedical sciences on one hand, but an overload for scientists performing literature searches on the other. A major portion of scientific literature search is to find statements, numbers and protocols that can be cited to build an evidence-based narrative for a new manuscript. Because science builds on prior knowledge, such information has likely been written out and cited in an older manuscript. Thus, Cited Statements, pieces of text from scientific literature supported by citing other peer-reviewed publications, carry significant amount of condensed information on prior art. Based on this principle, we propose a literature search service, SciRide Finder (finder.sciride.org), which constrains the search corpus to such Cited Statements only. We demonstrate that Cited Statements can carry different information to this found in titles/abstracts and full text, giving access to alternative literature search results than traditional search engines. We further show how presenting search results as a list of Cited Statements allows researchers to easily find information to build an evidence-based narrative for their own manuscripts.
根据 Medline/PubMed，有超过 2600 万篇经过同行评审的生物医学研究项目。一方面，这种信息的广度表明了生物医学科学的进步，但另一方面，对于进行文献检索的科学家来说，这也是一种过载。科学文献检索的一个主要部分是找到可以引用的陈述、数字和方案，以构建新手稿的基于证据的叙述。由于科学是建立在先前的知识基础上的，因此这些信息很可能已经在旧的手稿中被写出来并引用了。因此，引用语句，即从科学文献中引用其他同行评审出版物所支持的文本片段，承载了大量关于先前技术的浓缩信息。基于这一原理，我们提出了一个文献搜索服务 SciRide Finder（finder.sciride.org），该服务将搜索语料库仅限于这些引用语句。我们证明，引用语句可以提供与标题/摘要和全文中不同的信息，从而提供比传统搜索引擎更具替代性的文献搜索结果。我们进一步展示了如何将搜索结果呈现为引用语句列表，以便研究人员可以轻松找到构建自己手稿的基于证据的叙述所需的信息。
