The scientific publication score - a new tool for summarizing evidence and data quality criteria of biomedical publications.

ABSTRACT: The number of biomedical research articles increases by over 2.5 million publications each year, making it difficult to stay up to date. In this study, we introduce a standardized search and evaluation tool to combat this issue. Employing crowdsourcing, a large database of publications is gathered. Using a standardized data entry format, coined the "scientific publication score" (SPS), specific publication results can be easily aggregated, thereby allowing fast and accurate comparisons for clinical questions. The SPS combines two quality dimensions. The first captures the quality of evidence of the study using the evidence criteria defined by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK. The second is more fine-grained and considers the magnitude of statistical analyses on individual

SUBMITTER: Bettin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9832303 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature