Background Scientific publications are documentary representations of defeasible
arguments, supported by data and repeatable methods. They are the essential mediating …

The exponential growth of available information and the deployment of knowledge
management systems delivers excessive information to the end users that they cannot …

One of the main research areas in semantic publishing is the development of semantic
models that fit the requirements of authors and publishers. Although several models and …

I propose five factors—peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and
machine-readable metadata—as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, a constellation of …

Automatic document summarization using citations is based on summarizing what others
explicitly say about the document, by extracting a summary from text around the citations …

Automated citation sentiment analysis is a newly emerged research topic inspired by
traditional citation context analysis in scientometrics and applied linguistics. The main goals …

When scientists are searching for information, they generally have a precise objective in
mind. Instead of looking for documents “about a topic T”, they try to answer specific …

In this paper we present two ontologies, ie, BiRO and C4O, that allow users to describe
bibliographic references in an accurate way, and we introduce REnhancer, a proof-of …

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used to index the majority of databases generated by
the National Library of Medicine. Essentially, MeSH terms are designed to make information …

Purpose. This work addresses an escalating problem within the realm of scientific
publishing, that stems from accelerated publication rates of article formats difficult to process …