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  • Bibliometrics
  • Biomedical Literature Analysis

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  • Case series are a significant part of biomedical literature but are not indexed as a distinct publication type by the National Library of Medicine.
  • This lack of specific indexing hinders the retrieval and analysis of evidence from case series by clinicians and researchers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an automated method for indexing case series articles.
  • To improve the discoverability and medical value of case series in the biomedical literature.

Main Methods:

  • A corpus of PubMed articles mentioning "case series" was curated, excluding those better classified as other publication types or meta-analyses.
  • A transformer-based machine learning model was trained and tested on this corpus.
  • Manual evaluation of a sample of articles confirmed the accuracy of the automated indexing.

    • Main Results:

    • The automated indexing model demonstrated excellent performance on hold-out data (precision = 0.887, recall = 0.952, F1 = 0.918).
    • Manual review of 100 articles tagged as "case series" by the model showed that 88% met a formal definition of case series.
    • The study confirmed the feasibility of automatically indexing case series.

    Conclusions:

    • Automated indexing of case series is feasible and effective.
    • Enhanced discoverability of case series will increase their utility for evidence synthesis and general biomedical literature users.