A Survey on Life Science Database Citation Frequency in Scientific Literatures

There are so many databases of various fields of life sciences available online. To find well-used databases, a survey to measure life science database citation frequency in scientific literatures is done. The survey is done by measuring how many scientific literatures which are available on PubMed Central archive cited a specific life science database. This paper presents and discusses the results of the survey.

Authors:

• Hendry Muljadi
• Jiro Araki
• Satoru Miyazaki
• Asao Fujiyama

Keywords:

• Life science
• database
• metadatabase
• PubMedCentral.

References:

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