Geographic Barriers to Indexing: Examining Appalachia.

Q1 Social Sciences

Medical Reference Services Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-09 DOI:10.1080/02763869.2024.2326768

Emily W Blevins, Nakia J Woodward, Kelly Loyd, Aaron S Castle, Rachel R Walden, Richard L Wallace

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to examine the accuracy of indexing for "Appalachian Region"[Mesh]. Researchers performed a search in PubMed for articles published in 2019 using "Appalachian Region"[Mesh] or "Appalachia" or "Appalachian" in the title or abstract. Only 17.88% of the articles retrieved by the search were about Appalachia according to the ARC definition. Most articles retrieved appeared because they were indexed with state terms that were included as part of the mesh term. Database indexing and searching transparency is of growing importance as indexers rely increasingly on automated systems to catalog information and publications.

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索引编制的地理障碍：研究阿巴拉契亚。

本研究旨在检验 "阿巴拉契亚地区"[Mesh]索引的准确性。研究人员在PubMed上检索了2019年发表的文章，在标题或摘要中使用了 "阿巴拉契亚地区"[Mesh]或 "阿巴拉契亚 "或 "阿巴拉契亚"。根据 ARC 的定义，检索到的文章中只有 17.88% 是关于阿巴拉契亚的。大部分检索到的文章都是以州为索引的，而这些州又是网状词的一部分。随着索引编制人员越来越依赖于自动化系统对信息和出版物进行编目，数据库索引编制和检索的透明度变得越来越重要。

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Medical Reference Services Quarterly Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

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