Best Match: New relevance search for PubMed

PLoS Biology
Nicolas FioriniZhiyong Lu

Abstract

PubMed is a free search engine for biomedical literature accessed by millions of users from around the world each day. With the rapid growth of biomedical literature-about two articles are added every minute on average-finding and retrieving the most relevant papers for a given query is increasingly challenging. We present Best Match, a new relevance search algorithm for PubMed that leverages the intelligence of our users and cutting-edge machine-learning technology as an alternative to the traditional date sort order. The Best Match algorithm is trained with past user searches with dozens of relevance-ranking signals (factors), the most important being the past usage of an article, publication date, relevance score, and type of article. This new algorithm demonstrates state-of-the-art retrieval performance in benchmarking experiments as well as an improved user experience in real-world testing (over 20% increase in user click-through rate). Since its deployment in June 2017, we have observed a significant increase (60%) in PubMed searches with relevance sort order: it now assists millions of PubMed searches each week. In this work, we hope to increase the awareness and transparency of this new relevance sort option for PubMed ...Continue Reading

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Citations

Apr 26, 2019·Nucleic Acids Research·Alexis AllotZhiyong Lu
Nov 6, 2018·Nucleic Acids Research·Eric W SayersJames Ostell
Feb 29, 2020·PeerJ·Gerardo Lagunes-GarcíaErnestina Menasalvas-Ruiz
Oct 3, 2018·Nature Biotechnology·Nicolas FioriniZhiyong Lu
Oct 12, 2019·Nucleic Acids Research·Eric W SayersJames Ostell
Jul 22, 2019·Scientific Reports·Stefano PirròClaude Chelala
Sep 22, 2018·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Nicolas FioriniZhiyong Lu
Oct 9, 2020·Research Synthesis Methods·D V Klopfenstein, Will Dampier
Oct 22, 2020·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA·Lana YeganovaZhiyong Lu
Oct 24, 2020·Nucleic Acids Research·Eric W SayersStephen T Sherry
Oct 29, 2020·PloS One·J M van NiekerkJ E W C van Gemert-Pijnen
Nov 10, 2020·Nucleic Acids Research·Qingyu ChenZhiyong Lu
Dec 19, 2020·International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care·Margaret SampsonJ Dayre McNally
Jan 15, 2021·Otology & Neurotology : Official Publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology·Albert Mudry
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Aug 12, 2021·PLoS Computational Biology·Tomasz KonopkaDamian Smedley
Sep 2, 2021·Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science·Qingyu ChenZhiyong Lu
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