Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations and PubMed related article score
<|reference_start|>Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations and PubMed related article score: In this contribution, we deal with seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications. Using systematic reviews as a baseline, and publication data from the NIH Open Citation Collection, we compare the performance of the three citation-based approaches direct citation, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling with respect to recall and precision measures. In addition, we include the PubMed Related Article score as well as combined approaches in the comparison. We also provide a fairly comprehensive review of earlier research in which citation relations have been used for information retrieval purposes. The results show an advantage for co-citation over bibliographic coupling and direct citation. However, combining the three approaches outperforms the exclusive use of co-citation in the study. The results further indicate, in line with previous research, that combining citation-based approaches with textual approaches enhances the performance of seed-based information retrieval. The results from the study may guide approaches combining citation-based and textual approaches in their choice of citation similarity measures. We suggest that future research use more structured approaches to evaluate methods for seed-based retrieval of publications, including comparative approaches as well as the elaboration of common data sets and baselines for evaluation.<|reference_end|>
@article{sjögårde2024seed-based,
    title={Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications:
  Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations and
  PubMed related article score},
    author={Peter Sj"og{aa}rde and Per Ahlgren},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09295},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.09295},
    primaryClass={cs.IR}
}