A comparative study of the origin, structure, and indexing language of the Persian and English keywords of articles indexed in the IranMedex database and their compliance with the Persian medical thesaurus and Medical Subject Headings
| Autor: | Ali Hossein Ghasemi, Raziyeh Hassanzadeh-Beheshtabad, Parastoo Parsaei-Mohammadi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Computer science
Medicine (miscellaneous) thesauri computer.software_genre Education 03 medical and health sciences Statistical population Applied research medical subject headings Persian Information retrieval Data collection 030504 nursing Database 05 social sciences Search engine indexing Significant difference Phrase structure rules Indexing terms IranMedex database Checklist language.human_language language Original Article 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences 0305 other medical science computer |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Education and Health Promotion |
| ISSN: | 2319-6440 2277-9531 |
| Popis: | Introduction: In the present era, thesauri as tools in indexing play an effective role in integrating retrieval preventing fragmentation as well as a multiplicity of terminologies and also in providing information content of documents. Goals: This study aimed to investigate the keywords of articles indexed in IranMedex in terms of origin, structure and indexing situation and their Compliance with the Persian Medical Thesaurus and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Materials and Methods: This study is an applied research, and a survey has been conducted. Statistical population includes 32,850 Persian articles which are indexed in the IranMedex during the years 1385–1391. 379 cases were selected as sample of the study. Data collection was done using a checklist. In analyzing the findings, the SPSS Software were used. Findings: Although there was no significant difference in terms of indexing origin between the proportion of different types of the Persian and English keywords of articles indexed in the IranMedex, the compliance rates of the Persian and English keywords with the Persian medical thesaurus and MeSH were different in different years. In the meantime, the structure of keywords is leaning more towards phrase structure, and a single word structure and the majority of keywords are selected from the titles and abstracts. Conclusion: The authors' familiarity with the thesauri and controlled tools causes homogeneity in assigning keywords and also provides more precise, faster, and easier retrieval of the keywords. It's suggested that a mixture of natural and control languages to be used in this database in order to reach more comprehensive results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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