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Table 3 Search tag and queries issued per user

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

Number of consecutive queries

Number of users

Total number of users

Number of total distinct tags in the queries

= 0

= 1

= 2

= 3 to 14

1

193,935

54,930

9,002

7,758

265,625

2

64,502

12,461

764

1,809

79,536

3

45,023

7,869

561

1,212

54,665

4

31,945

6,016

394

895

39,250

5

24,128

4,634

360

709

29,831

6

18,248

3,898

312

609

23,067

7

14,210

3,267

254

493

18,224

8

11,348

2,703

251

484

14,786

9

9,053

2,295

200

447

11,995

10

7,548

1,966

154

371

10,039

11 to 50

42,741

15,608

1,526

3,394

63,269

Total (%)

462,681

115,647

13,778

18,181

610,287

(75.81%)

(18.95%)

(2.26%)

(2.987%)

(100%)

  1. This table presents the total number of users using a different number of total distinct tags issuing a different number of queries.