Medical Subject Headings
Also known as MeSH, MeSH vocabulary
controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences
AI overview
Medical Subject Headings is a standardized system of approved terms used to organize and categorize scientific articles and books in medicine and life sciences, making it easier for researchers to find relevant publications. This controlled vocabulary matters because it ensures that papers on the same topic are consistently labeled with the same terms, rather than being scattered under different names for the same concept.
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Key facts
- Description
- Medical Subject Headings
- Data types captured
- controlled vocabulary
- Research center
- United States National Library of Medicine , National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Laboratory
- United States National Library of Medicine
- Authors
- F. B. Rogers
- Primary citation
- PMID 13982385
- Website
- nlm.nih.gov/mesh
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
5,178 papers- Medical subject headings.Bulletin of the Medical Library Association · 1963
- Evaluation of Medical Subject Headings assignment in simulated patient articles.The International journal of pharmacy practice · 2024
Article · Français
Le Medical Subject Headings ou MeSH est un système de métadonnées médicales en langue anglaise concernant la nomenclature en se basant sur l'indexation d'articles en sciences de la vie. Cette initiative a été lancée et est toujours maintenue par la Bibliothèque nationale de médecine des États-Unis d'Amérique, le MeSH s'appuie sur le système MEDLINE-PubMed.
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