Citation analysis is also useful to assess the eligibility of biomedical research works for inclusion in living systematic reviews

I have read with much interest the JCE series advocating the use of human efforts and machine automation to create and update living systematic reviews (LSRs) [1]. I recognize that the series provides important information on how biomedical research works are verified as eligible for inclusion in LSRs using semantic classification and crowdsourcing techniques [1]. However, this paper has not dealt with another technique that has been recently shown to be useful (when jointly used with semantic classification and crowdsourcing techniques) in assessing the eligibility of papers for inclusion in LSRs: This important technique is citation analysis [2 –6].

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - November 11, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Houcemeddine Turki Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research