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Colil: a database and search service for citation contexts in the life sciences domain

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, October 2015
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Title
Colil: a database and search service for citation contexts in the life sciences domain
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13326-015-0037-x
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Authors

Toyofumi Fujiwara, Yasunori Yamamoto

Abstract

To promote research activities in a particular research area, it is important to efficiently identify current research trends, advances, and issues in that area. Although review papers in the research area can suffice for this purpose in general, researchers are not necessarily able to obtain these papers from research aspects of their interests at the time they are required. Therefore, the utilization of the citation contexts of papers in a research area has been considered as another approach. However, there are few search services to retrieve citation contexts in the life sciences domain; furthermore, efficiently obtaining citation contexts is becoming difficult due to the large volume and rapid growth of life sciences papers. Here, we introduce the Colil (Comments on Literature in Literature) database to store citation contexts in the life sciences domain. By using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and a newly compiled vocabulary, we built the Colil database and made it available through the SPARQL endpoint. In addition, we developed a web-based search service called Colil that searches for a cited paper in the Colil database and then returns a list of citation contexts for it along with papers relevant to it based on co-citations. The citation contexts in the Colil database were extracted from full-text papers of the PubMed Central Open Access Subset (PMC-OAS), which includes 545,147 papers indexed in PubMed. These papers are distributed across 3,171 journals and cite 5,136,741 unique papers that correspond to approximately 25 % of total PubMed entries. By utilizing Colil, researchers can easily refer to a set of citation contexts and relevant papers based on co-citations for a target paper. Colil helps researchers to comprehend life sciences papers in a research area more efficiently and makes their biological research more efficient.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 3%
Spain 1 3%
Unknown 30 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 19%
Researcher 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Professor 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 7 22%
Unknown 5 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 8 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 19%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Unspecified 2 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 8 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2023.
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#3,610,699
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