Distant Reader - journal-cureus-cord

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-30 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader cord process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of CORD, a data set of scholarly articles on the topic of COVID-19. The actual query was: facet_journal:"Cureus". The results of this query were saved in a cache and transformed into a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 146 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 323,274 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 2,545 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 48. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

covid, patients, disease, patient, study, coronavirus, sars, health, respiratory, cov, clinical, acute, authors, infection, may, severe, also, cases, risk, case, medical, pandemic, treatment, symptoms, care, use, reported, relationships, studies, one, work, hospital, syndrome, associated, days, high, due, positive, virus, data, declared, however, financial, two, pneumonia, used, submitted, three, present, years

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Cardiac Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Comprehensive Review, A Review of Acute Myocardial Injury in Coronavirus Disease 2019, and Disease Site-Specific Guidelines for Curative Radiation Treatment During ‘Limited Surgery’ and ‘Hospital Avoidance’: A Radiation Oncology Perspective From the Epicenter of COVID-19 Pandemic.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

submitted work, coronavirus disease, acute respiratory, financial relationships, novel coronavirus, respiratory syndrome, severe acute, syndrome coronavirus, respiratory distress, cord uid, doc id, cureus doi, three years, payment services, services info, disclosure form, uniform disclosure, authors declare, icmje uniform, previous three, financial support, mental health, risk factors, united states, human subjects, mechanical ventilation, distress syndrome, medical students, mg dl, health care, clinical characteristics, intensive care, cloth masks, myocardial injury, chain reaction, polymerase chain, case series, world health, health organization, case report, cardiac injury, animal subjects, respiratory failure, respiratory symptoms, public health, clinical features, medical history, severe covid, systematic review, diabetes mellitus

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Cardiac Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Comprehensive Review A Review of Acute Myocardial Injury in Coronavirus Disease 2019, and Poor Prognostic Biochemical Markers Predicting Fatalities Caused by COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Study From a Developing Country.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

covid-19, patient, sars, health, ppe, pcr, mask, student, stroke, medical, ards, ventricular, study, pakistan, mental, hcq, ecmo, dka, disease, cov-2, china, child, vsr, vitamin, virtual, vaping, vape, uns, symptom, stress, staphylococcus, slt, skin, session, seizure, sbrt, sbcyor, saudi, rna, risk, rhode, relapse, refugee, pulmonary, publication, pth, prone, presentation, pituitary, participant

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be covid, and Cerebral Microbleeds - To Treat or Not to Treat, That Is the Question: A Case Report With a Note on Its Radiologic Deconstruction and Therapeutic Nuances is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

covid, patients, disease - Cardiac Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Comprehensive Review
health, patient, study - Reduction in Chronic Disease Risk and Burden in a 70-Individual Cohort Through Modification of Health Behaviors
patients, study, covid - San Bernardino County Youth Opioid Response: Improving Access to Evidence-Based Medical Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
covid, health, children - Refugee and Migrant Children’s Mental Healthcare: Serving the Voiceless, Invisible, and the Vulnerable Global Citizens
patients, students, covid - Involvement of Medical Students During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

patients, disease, patient, study, coronavirus, authors, infection, health, cases, risk, case, symptoms, pandemic, treatment, relationships, care, studies, use, virus, work, syndrome, days, data, hospital, students, time, pneumonia, blood, years, mortality, findings, day, rate, participants, injury, management, results, levels, number, chest, healthcare, analysis, therapy, masks, review, history, lung, population, fever, diagnosis

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

using, including, showed, report, declare, present, increases, following, submitted, associated, cause, receiving, based, find, developing, required, leads, performed, provide, treat, make, confirmed, compared, given, need, improved, consider, identified, affecting, seen, obtained, revealed, infected, appear, covid-19, suggest, known, took, remained, reduce, started, related, tested, resulted, involved, described, influenced, continue, noting, demonstrate

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

COVID-19, SARS, CoV-2, CT, China, PCR, RT, Wuhan, PPE, mg, Health, ARDS, Coronavirus, Cureus, DOI, sha, ICMJE, United, March, States, IV, Disease, ACE2, World, Pakistan, Table, April, US, ICU, L, Organization, Consent, CoV, RNA, Gy, MERS, ED, ADHD, HCQ, December, HCP, May, EM, U.S., Hospital, C, COVID, Nepal, DKA, CRP

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, we, our, their, they, he, his, its, she, her, them, i, us, you, themselves, itself, your, him, one, my, ours, mg, yourself, himself, covid-19, u2gm3kyh, tau^2, oneself, me, aptt

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

respiratory, clinical, acute, severe, covid-19, medical, high, positive, financial, viral, significant, negative, non, novel, present, cardiac, higher, human, common, pulmonary, possible, patient, first, previous, surgical, normal, low, early, old, mental, mild, many, neurological, new, myocardial, chronic, available, current, multiple, social, recent, public, initial, lower, general, several, different, bilateral, due, important

also, however, well, even, therefore, especially, significantly, still, prior, currently, later, respectively, commonly, rapidly, daily, furthermore, additionally, highly, already, critically, often, moreover, usually, worldwide, particularly, now, recently, less, approximately, subsequently, previously, potentially, hence, yet, initially, first, frequently, least, almost, statistically, far, clinically, widely, mainly, better, primarily, directly, successfully, similarly, unfortunately

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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