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A Unified Rubric and Similarity Metric for Biomedical Publication Types and Study Designs

2026-01-04 health informatics Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveOur goal is to unify the 72 biomedical publication types and study designs (collectively, PTs) into a single rubric and hierarchy. Materials and MethodsThis is carried out in a data-driven manner by computing pairwise similarities of each PT against all others to form a similarity matrix. By performing hierarchical clustering we place each PT in a specific category and collect these into broader categories. ResultsSpearman correlations among PT pairs ranged from strongly negative to s...

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