Retrieval performance in online search in thermal physiology.
Documents on four topics in thermal physiology were searched for in both BIOSIS and MEDLINE using both natural language and standard index words. The search by natural language retrieved more relevant documents than the search by standard index words in both databases. Overall, more relevant documents were retrieved in MEDLINE than in BIOSIS. Even in MEDLINE, however, only about 40% of the total existing documents (as estimated by an expert in thermal physiology) were retrieved.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820.
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D008523:MEDLARS; D009862:Online Systems; D010827:Physiology; D013358:Subject Headings; D013696:Temperature; D014481:United States