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Pros and Cons of Using AI for Literature Searching: PubMed

PubMed's Use of AI

PubMed, the international  biomedical literature database, uses AI in its "Best Match" algorithm, which finds relevant articles and ranks them by best match to the query. This is an improvement over PubMed's previous matching algorithms.

Pros

  • PubMed is considered one of the best biomedical databases for journal literature.
  • The interface is well organized and easy to use.
  • Has an advanced search for precise or complex searching
  • Automatically maps terms to subject headings, resulting in better retrieval
  • Has good citation export features
  • Links to an NCBI dashboard and save references or searches, and access SciENcv

Cons

  • An undertanding of Boolean operators (AND, OR)  is necessary for more effective searching in PubMed,
  • Proximity searching (searching words near each other) is not intuitive.

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