A quick search on pubmed.gov today reveals that the freely available American database of biomedical literature has just passed the 20 million citations mark*. Should we celebrate or commiserate passing this landmark figure? Is it a triumph or a tragedy that PubMed® is the size it is? (more…)
July 27, 2010
Twenty million papers in PubMed: a triumph or a tragedy?
Filed under: data mining,publishing,web — Duncan Hull @ 3:37 pm
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Tags: 20 million, Alon Halevy, Anna Kushnir, Barack Obama, bibliography, cameron neylon, database, discovery deficit, Entrez, Fernando Pereira, filter failure, information overload, ISI WOK, Least Publishable Unit, Medline, MESH, NCBI, Neil Smalheiser, ontology, Open Researcher & Contributor ID, ORCID, PageRank, Peter Norvig, prozac, publish or perish, pubmed, PubMed Central, pubmed tragedies, PubMed triumphs, PubSCIENCE, Rezarta Islamaj, ROFL, scopus, tragedy, triumph, Vetle Torvik
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