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AbstractSifter v7
Citation:
Adkins, N., N. Baker, AND C. Elonen. AbstractSifter v7. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2022. https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588635
Impact/Purpose:
The Abstract Sifter is a Microsoft Excel based application that enhances existing search capabilities of PubMed. The Abstract Sifter assists researchers to search effectively, triage results, and keep track of articles of interest. The tool implements an innovative “sifter” functionality for relevance ranking, giving the researcher a way to find articles of interest quickly. The tool also gives researchers a view of the literature landscape for a set of entities such as chemicals or genes. The Abstract Sifter is available as a Microsoft Excel macro-enabled workbook application.
Description:
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure have developed a novel approach to article retrieval via the PubMed Abstract Sifter application. This application has been implemented in a Microsoft Excel version, and made publicly available in the Comptox Chemicals Dashboard (https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/). While the Dashboard version is convenient and a powerful way to find information quickly and efficiently about a chemical of interest, for more in-depth literature tasks such as reviews, the Excel version of the Abstract Sifter offers increased functionality. Results from a PubMed search are imported directing into an Excel sheet, where the end-user can then use a novel “sifter” methodology for quick, agile relevance ranking of articles. The tool also enables article triage capabilities through easy tagging and noting functionality. Triaged citations can be exported to external software such as reference management tools. The Abstract Sifter can also provide a high-level view of a corpus of literature for a defined set of entities such as chemicals. This “landscape” view helps researchers assess the volume of literature in any given subject area to help with project scoping and chemical ranking.
URLs/Downloads:
DOI: AbstractSifter v7
ABSTRACTSIFTER_V7.XLSX
ABSTRACTSIFTER_USERGUIDE_V7_FINAL.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 4833.045 KB, about PDF)
https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/pubmed-abstract-sifter/