{"id":16817,"date":"2020-06-15T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2025-03-02T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:15:50","slug":"why-pubmed-is-going-into-the-false-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/06\/why-pubmed-is-going-into-the-false-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pubmed is going into the false direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think, the new Pubmed layout isn&#8217;t too bad. But there is a remarkable difference how papers are being displayed right now. Justif compare the old (legacy) version of Pubmed and the new layout using exactly the same search query.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16818\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16818 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-620x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-620x352.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-880x500.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">old Version: sorted by publication date, newest first<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16819\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16819 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-620x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-620x422.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-735x500.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">new version, sorted by &#8220;best match&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I fear that the new sort order will let a lot of scientists just take the &#8220;best match&#8221; as their main reference &#8211; also known as Matthew effect. The NLM support didn\u2018t understand my issue<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for writing to the help desk. The default sort order is Best Match to help users find relevant citations quickly. If you would like to change how results are sorted, please use the Display Options button (located in the top right corner). If you change the &#8220;sort by&#8221; option, your new selection will be active for subsequent searches until browser data and cookies are cleared. For more information about sorting your results, please see: https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/help\/#sort-results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fear that 90% of all Pubmed users will now go for an obscure \u201ebest match\u201c that may be outdated.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think, the new Pubmed layout isn&#8217;t too bad. But there is a remarkable difference how papers are being displayed right now. Justif compare the old (legacy) version of Pubmed and the new layout using exactly the same search query. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I fear that the new sort order will let a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/06\/why-pubmed-is-going-into-the-false-direction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Pubmed is going into the false direction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24723,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions\/24723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}