Roche Innovation Center Basel, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2021 Feb 26;22(1):95. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04044-4.
Numerous efforts have been poured into annotating the wealth of knowledge contained in biomedical articles. Thanks to such efforts, it is now possible to quantitatively explore relations between these annotations and the citation network at large scale.
With the aid of several large and small annotation databases, this study shows that articles share annotations with their citation neighborhood to the point that the neighborhood's most common annotations are likely to be those appearing in the article.
These findings posit that an article's citation neighborhood defines to a large extent the article's annotated content. Thus, citations should be considered as a foundation for future knowledge management and annotation of biomedical articles.
人们投入了大量精力来注释生物医学文章中包含的丰富知识。由于这些努力，现在可以大规模地定量探索这些注释与引文网络之间的关系。
本研究借助几个大型和小型注释数据库表明，文章与其引文邻居共享注释，以至于邻居最常见的注释很可能是出现在文章中的注释。
这些发现表明，文章的引文邻居在很大程度上定义了文章的注释内容。因此，引文应该被视为未来生物医学文章知识管理和注释的基础。
