Distant Reader - journal-medHypotheses-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:"Med Hypotheses". 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 87 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 128,361 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 2,070 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 44. 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, sars, cov, patients, cells, infection, disease, ace, virus, coronavirus, may, respiratory, cell, immune, also, severe, viral, protein, inflammatory, clinical, lung, human, il, receptor, associated, response, treatment, acute, syndrome, effects, system, high, role, inflammation, vitamin, activity, blood, risk, levels, potential, study, expression, effect, endothelial, pulmonary, induced, cases, cd, studies, activation

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Hypothesis: alpha-1-antitrypsin is a promising treatment option for COVID-19, The influence of ABO blood groups on COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: a molecular hypothesis based on carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions, and Reflection on lower rates of COVID-19 in children: does childhood immunizations offer unexpected protection?.

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

acute respiratory, respiratory syndrome, severe acute, novel coronavirus, coronavirus disease, immune response, lung injury, immune system, respiratory distress, converting enzyme, severe covid, cytokine storm, spike protein, med hypotheses, doc id, hypotheses doi, cord uid, oxidative stress, distress syndrome, syndrome coronavirus, endothelial cells, epithelial cells, inflammatory cytokines, immune cells, innate immune, nitric oxide, viral infection, inflammatory response, immune responses, clinical characteristics, viral infections, acute lung, virus infection, risk factors, hydrogen peroxide, host cells, influenza virus, ace receptor, critically ill, clinical trials, may also, respiratory tract, endothelial dysfunction, systematic review, cardiovascular disease, viral load, angiotensin ii, endothelial cell, patients infected, ang ii

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Phosphatidylglycerol and Surfactant: A Potential Treatment for COVID-19? Repositioning of pentoxifylline as an immunomodulator and regulator of the renin-angiotensin system in the treatment of COVID-19, and Hypothesis: alpha-1-antitrypsin is a promising treatment option for COVID-19.

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:

sars, covid-19, ace2, cell, patient, virus, tnf, ptx, high, hcq, drug, bcg, ang, vitamin, vaccine, tmv, tmprss2, system, surfactant, statin, sirt1, siglec-5, sicily, shift, resident, ras, pulmonary, peroxide, particle, p450, oxygen, oxide, ocular, nitric, nih, nad, nac, mount, medical, mdsc, lymphatic, influenza, infection, il-6, ibuprofen, hydrogen, hpa, hmgb1, garlic, exercise

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 Hypothesis: alpha-1-antitrypsin is a promising treatment option for COVID-19 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, sars, cov - Apparent difference in fatalities between Central Europe and East Asia due to SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19: Four hypotheses for possible explanation
covid, sars, patients - Hypothesis: alpha-1-antitrypsin is a promising treatment option for COVID-19
covid, sars, cov - Burnout syndrome in Romanian medical residents in time of the COVID-19 pandemic
vitamin, respiratory, air - Vitamin E Acetate as Linactant in the Pathophysiology of EVALI
covid, drug, disease - Cytochrome P450-mediated drug interactions in COVID-19 patients: current findings and possible mechanisms

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, cells, infection, virus, disease, cell, coronavirus, protein, lung, response, receptor, treatment, effects, syndrome, system, role, inflammation, vitamin, blood, activity, levels, risk, expression, cases, effect, study, studies, injury, hypothesis, activation, mortality, factor, infections, authors, cytokine, angiotensin, type, drug, production, factors, cytokines, covid-19, influenza, host, surface, function, enzyme, people, tissue, damage

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:

induce, increased, shown, associated, caused, used, reduce, inhibits, include, suggest, bind, reported, leads, activated, mediated, known, infected, found, related, based, decrease, prevent, result, converting, considered, affect, compared, involve, propose, signaling, observed, plays, developed, treated, provide, regulated, support, given, seen, indicated, covid-19, presents, improve, expressed, identifying, demonstrated, requires, contribute, controlling, occurring

Proper Nouns

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

SARS, COVID-19, CoV-2, ACE2, Coronavirus, China, CoV, II, T, IL-6, ARDS, TNF, Med, Hypotheses, AAT, Wuhan, DOI, sha, Disease, RNA, PTX, TMPRSS2, α, NAC, East, Covid-19, BCG, S, PS, HCQ, CD8, RAS, MERS, HIV, Ang, ATP, Health, EMMPRIN, Novel, ICU, CD4, Asia, ACE, Italy, HMGB1, Angiotensin, Europe, Cu, CD33, GcMAF

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, its, we, their, our, they, i, them, us, itself, my, one, he, your, you, his, her, yours, themselves, me, u, siglec-14, she, ours, interaction/, him, -14, 's

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, severe, immune, viral, inflammatory, clinical, acute, covid-19, human, high, endothelial, pulmonary, anti, potential, vascular, new, therapeutic, novel, important, low, higher, possible, different, specific, innate, key, several, non, early, significant, pro, oxidative, oral, chronic, many, antiviral, recent, cellular, major, lower, epithelial, infectious, systemic, current, cardiovascular, male, effective, critical, infected, various

also, well, however, therefore, even, especially, moreover, potentially, highly, currently, particularly, significantly, recently, furthermore, critically, indeed, clinically, thereby, relatively, much, widely, often, directly, now, still, together, rather, rapidly, mainly, first, previously, already, far, likely, less, strongly, similarly, finally, yet, interestingly, usually, specifically, respectively, additionally, probably, worldwide, severely, single, possibly, markedly

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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