The FAIR database: facilitating access to public health research literature
Zhixue Zhao, James Thomas, Gregory Kell, Claire Stansfield, Mark Clowes, Sergio Graziosi, Jeff Brunton, Iain James Marshall, Mark Stevenson · 2024
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Description
Public health research is scattered across journals and jargon, so decision makers struggle to find the studies that bear on inequality. Zhixue Zhao and eight co-authors build a living database in 2024, FAIR, that tags the literature automatically. Trained classifiers label each study's design and its relevance to the social factors in the PROGRESS-Plus scheme.
The design classifier proved sharp; the inequality tagging was harder, landing near sixty percent precision. Even so, the database updates itself and is free to search. Earlier automation served clinical topics, leaving public health, where the need may be greater, unserved. The authors present FAIR as working proof that the gap can close.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhixue Zhao, James Thomas, Gregory Kell, Claire Stansfield, Mark Clowes, Sergio Graziosi, Jeff Brunton, Iain James Marshall, Mark Stevenson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |