Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 MSc. in Knowledge and Information Science, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
2 Ph.D. in Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this research is to find (recognize) the effect of keywords documentation by using Persian medical thesaurus in citing articles from IranMedex and Medlib databases.
Methodology: In terms of its aim, this research is practical; and is done semi-experimental methods. To assess the relevance of search results, using of both ordinary language and documented keywords with Persian medical thesaurus is observed and recorded in table, by Guilan University of Medical Science and also researcher.
Findings: Based on the obtained results, the significance level of the test for both Iranmedex and Medlib databases isrespectively 492% and 367%, according to standardized and ordinary languages. Based on this, there is no significant difference between rate of cited articles with ordinary language and standardized keywords in IranMedex and Medlib databases.
Conclusion: Documentation of keywords in the Iranmedex database has no significant effect on the precision of cited information. Also, documentation of keywords in the Medlib database has no significant effect on the precision of cited information.
Documentation of keywords in the Iranmedex database has negative effect on the Recall of cited information. Documentation of keywords in both Iranmedex and Mddlib database has no effect on the rate of cited articles.
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