An assessment of descriptor coincidence in the Spanish journals of Pub-Med
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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v25i1.4507Keywords:
Indexing, Degree of coincidence in indexing, automatic indexing, indexing methods, indexing terms, MeSH on Demand, SpainAbstract
The study aims to compare the indexing consistency between authors, professional catalogers and MeSH on Demandin the Pubmed database. The objective is to identify if the automatic indexing tool is effective in recommending indexing terms. A representative sample of 501 papers published in Spanish journals in 2015 was extracted, and the three set of assigned descriptors were compared for each individual paper. The major findings of the study indicate that the consistency value between professional indexers and MeSH on Demandis higher than the value obtained by the authors. As a final conclusion, there is a need for scientific journals to recommend authors to use the automatic indexing tool when assigning keywords to their papers in order to facilitate access to information.
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