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Table 5 Search tag frequencies

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

Query type

Search field tag

Number of queries with single tag

Number of queries with two or more tags

Total

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[AUTHOR]

179,418

23,277

202,695

[PUBLICATION DATE]

2,197

51,021

53,218

[JOURNAL]

12,153

36,383

48,536

[PAGINATION]

330

36,213

36,543

[VOLUME]

89

33,630

33,719

[ISSUE]

4

10,608

10,612

[ENTREZ DATE]

695

3,490

4,185

[FIRST AUTHOR NAME]

1,000

2,478

3,478

[AFFILIATION]

1,197

1,341

2,538

[CORPORATE AUTHOR]

1,463

8

1,471

[PMID]

1,351

65

1,416

[GRANT NUMBER]

85

652

737

[MESH DATE]

21

201

222

[BOOK]

78

1

79

[FULL AUTHOR NAME]

64

30

79

[DATE]

13

53

66

[SECONDARY SOURCE ID]

34

0

34

[ARTICLE IDENTIFIER]

13

0

13

[NLMID]

6

0

6

Informational

[MESH TERMS]

10,195

11,704

21,899

[LANGUAGE]

12,496

7,595

20,091

[TITLE]

7,180

3,765

10,945

[TITLE ABSTRACT]

5,001

4,889

9,890

[PUBLICATION TYPE]

605

7,366

7,971

[MESH MAJOR TOPIC]

2,047

5,847

7,894

[TEXT WORD]

1,227

5,950

7,177

[SUBSET]

2,775

4,167

6,942

[ALL FIELDS]

2,822

1,922

4,744

[FILTER]

466

1,564

2,030

[SUBHEADING]

117

1,552

1,669

[EC/RN NUMBER]

165

673

838

[SUBSTANCE]

263

459

722

[SOURCE]

200

44

244

[PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION]

23

50

73

[PLACE OF PUBLICATION]

23

25

48

[PS]

19

4

23

[OTHER TERM]

3

6

9

  1. This table presents the total number of queries containing 37 different search field tags. This table also contains the number of queries containing single tag and two or more tags.