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Related Articles

The Related Articles link is as straightforward as it sounds. PubMed uses a powerful word-weighted algorithm to compare words from the Title and Abstract of each citation, as well as the MeSH headings assigned. The best matches for each citation are pre-calculated and stored as a set.

You may see a few citations without the Related Articles link, which simply means that these citations have not yet gone through the algorithm. This process may take several days.

For a detailed explanation of the algorithm, see Computation of Related Articles.

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Last reviewed: 28 April 2009
Last updated: 10 October 2008
First published: 20 March 2001
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