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Table 1 PubMed/MEDLINE informational search field tags[14]

From: A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

Search field tag

Variants

[MESH TERMS]

[MH], [MESH]

[MESH MAJOR TOPIC]

[MAJR]

[MESH SUBHEADINGS]

[SH], [SUBHEADING]

[FILTER]*

[FILTER]*

[LANGUAGE]

[LA], [LANG]

[EC/RN NUMBER]

[RN], [EC], [ECNO]

[OTHER TERM]

[OT], [KEYWORD]

[PS]*

[PS]*

[SUPPLEMENTARY CONCEPT]

[NM], [SUBS], [SUBSTANCE NAME]

[PHARAMCOLOGICAL ACTION]

[PA]

[PLACE OF PUBLICATION]

[PL]

[PUBLICATION TYPE]

[PT], [PTYP]

[SUBSET]

[SB]

[TEXT WORDS]

[TW], [TEXT], [WORD]

[TITLE]

[TI], [TITL]

[TITLE/ABSTRACT]

[TIAB]

[TRANSLITERATED TITLE]#

[TT]#

[ALL FIELDS]

[ALL], [ALL FIELD]

COMMENT CORRECTIONS #

N/A

  1. *No variation of this tag was observed either in the PubMed documentation [14] or query log file.
  2. #This tag did not appear in the user query log file.