TY - GEN AU - Ortuño, Francisco M. AU - Rojas Ruiz, Ignacio AU - Andrade-Navarro, Miguel A. AU - Fontaine, Jean-Fred PY - 2013 SN - 1471-2105 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/28449 AB - Background A popular query from scientists reading a biomedical abstract is to search for topic-related documents in bibliographic databases. Such a query is challenging because the amount of information attached to a single abstract is little,... AB - Results Data on cited references and text sections in 249,108 full-text biomedical articles was extracted from the Open Access subset of the PubMed Central® database (PMC-OA). Of the five standard sections of a scientific article, the Introduction... AB - Conclusions The retrieval of documents related to a single document can be significantly improved by using the references cited by this document (p-value<0.01). Using references from Introduction and Discussion performs almost as well as using all... LA - eng PB - Biomed Central KW - Information retrieval KW - Text categorization KW - Citations KW - Full-text documents KW - Biomedical literature KW - Query expansion KW - Document classifcation TI - Using cited references to improve the retrieval of related biomedical documents DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-14-113 ER -