MEDSUM: The MEDLINE Summary Tool
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Description: MEDSUM calls PubMed/MEDLINE with your query term, downloads the returning data and processes it to summarize information such as top 10 authors.
Hosting organization: Institute of Biomedical Informatics (IBMI), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Homepage: http://webtools.mf.uni-lj.si/public/medsum.html
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MEDSUM provides a literature-summary interface to PubMed. It can generate "profiles" of authors or journals; or it can be used for status-of-literature data generation (e.g. breakdown of publications on "schizophrenia" by year) for review papers or grant applications.
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[edit] Database Description
MEDSUM is a free webtool. You can just go to the website and put any search term in the search bar. Then click one of the four buttons.
The Profile button is used to return tabularized data for any author, researcher or subject search entered. Data returned are top 10 authors, top 10 journals, animals:humans research ratio, age profiles of populations used, MeSH categories, years, etc.
The Timeline buttons allows any search to be broken down over years, even for huge topic areas such as “depression” or “rats”. These generated tables can be copy and pasted into Excel to make graphs of the growth of any domain of literature or any specific term.
These buttons and others are all explained, with examples and tips, on MEDSUM’s tutorial page.
[edit] Authors
- Mike Galsworthy
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[edit] Publications
- pending. MEDSUM was only released in Oct 2007.
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