By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition has long been one of the most difficult subjects to search in PubMed. We were happy to report earlier this year that the National Library of Medicine has gone a long way toward fixing this problem, with a new explosion forContinue reading “Diet, Food, and Nutrition – How To Search in PubMed”
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Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition in PubMed Just Got A Lot Easier!
By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu As we’ve written earlier, the way that nutrition, food and diet subjects have been arranged in the MeSH tree explosion system has made it tricky to do comprehensive, all-inclusive searching. This has been the case because the three subjects have been in different places in the MeSHContinue reading “Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition in PubMed Just Got A Lot Easier!”
Plant-Based Foods – An Inclusive PubMed Search
This article has been superseded by the following: Plant-Based Foods – An Inclusive PubMed Search – Revised 2016 ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In our earlier article on searching for plant-based foods (PBF) in PubMed, we suggested that a quick way to search the subject is to combine MeSH plant-related explosions AND ourContinue reading “Plant-Based Foods – An Inclusive PubMed Search”
Food, Diet & Nutrition: Popular Subject, Difficult PubMed Search
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In December, Altmetric published a list of the most popular research papers of 2013 <http://www.altmetric.com/top100>. The Altmetric site has developed a method to quantify popularity by using social media and traditional media to measure the “buzz” about particular articles. Of the top 64 articles on the altmetric list, aContinue reading “Food, Diet & Nutrition: Popular Subject, Difficult PubMed Search”
Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search
This article has been superseded by the following: Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search – Revised 2016 ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in an earlier article, searching for Food-Diet-Nutrition in PubMed is difficult because the subject is spread around in several different places in the MeSH classification system. In another article,Continue reading “Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search”
The meaning of cruciferous
To modern ears, “cruciferous” is all about vegetables. But the word’s rich history shows that it was formerly used in a much broader sense. By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu In a Google search for the word “cruciferous,“ 9 out of the top 10 retrievals contain the phrase “cruciferous vegetables.” This certainly doesContinue reading “The meaning of cruciferous”
Searching Nutrition In PubMed & Embase: The Winner Is…
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As we’ve discussed, the big problem in searching for food-diet-nutrition subjects in PubMed is that the subjects are not together in a convenient bundle, as most subject groupings are in PubMed. To get a list of articles that includes food, diet and nutrition, it’s necessary to search each ofContinue reading “Searching Nutrition In PubMed & Embase: The Winner Is…”
Holy Carnitine! @Altmetric Is On To Something Big!
In our previous article, we talked about a ranking list done by Altmetric of the most popular research articles of 2013. An interesting anecdotal story at the Reference desk just a couple of days after publishing the article, I think, gives strong confirmation of the validity of the Altmetric ranking. As I was working atContinue reading “Holy Carnitine! @Altmetric Is On To Something Big!”