Distant Reader - keyword-trial-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 2021-05-25 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: keywords:trial. 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 56 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 221,519 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 4,027 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:

trials, trial, clinical, will, data, covid, patients, research, study, treatment, may, pandemic, analysis, use, care, time, safety, health, participants, also, phase, results, used, patient, studies, based, disease, randomized, review, one, evidence, two, group, risk, outcomes, i, information, first, using, new, drug, number, vaccine, medical, effect, consent, well, controlled, children, cancer

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project), Integrating trials into a whole-population cohort of children and parents: statement of intent (trials) for the Generation Victoria (GenV) cohort, and Nasal Airway Obstruction Study (NAIROS): a phase III, open-label, mixed-methods, multicentre randomised controlled trial of septoplasty versus medical management of a septal deviation with nasal obstruction.

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

clinical trials, clinical trial, adverse events, clinical research, controlled trial, acute respiratory, standard care, missing data, informed consent, systematic review, controlled trials, sample size, randomized controlled, randomised controlled, serious adverse, data collection, randomized clinical, coronavirus disease, public health, respiratory syndrome, cord uid, doc id, trial design, phase iii, health care, versus standard, phase i, negative disconfirmation, respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, severe acute, phase ii, clinical practice, safety data, trial sequential, united states, first trial, healthcare workers, respiratory distress, control group, analysis showed, additional file, data will, treatment effect, novel coronavirus, participants will, trial will, trial results, statistical analysis, distress syndrome

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Impact of COVID-19 on the Conduct of Clinical Trials for Medical Products in Korea Patient distrust in pharmaceutical companies: an explanation for women under-representation in respiratory clinical trials?, and Medical research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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:

trial, covid-19, patient, clinical, research, datum, treatment, study, sars, phase, pandemic, day, victoria, vaccine, user, united, tcm, tablet, surfactant, site, score, safety, result, respiratory, rapid, pwd, policy, plague, participant, pangolin, outcome, old, norway, network, nasal, nairos, mers, mask, manis, madagascar, korea, june, ipad, intervention, infection, impact, ice, hydroxychloroquine, hopper, home

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 trials, and Efficacy and safety of Jia Wei Bushen Yiqi formulas as an adjunct therapy to systemic glucocorticoids on acute exacerbation of COPD: study protocol for a randomized, double-blinded, multi-center, placebo-controlled clinical trial 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:

trials, trial, covid - Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project)
trials, clinical, trial - An open-label, randomized, non-inferiority trial of the efficacy and safety of ciprofloxacin versus streptomycin + ciprofloxacin in the treatment of bubonic plague (IMASOY): study protocol for a randomized control trial
will, trial, vaccine - Appropriating Information Technology Artefacts through Trial and Error: The Case of the Tablet
trials, genv, trial - Investigating the use of sensory information to detect and track prey by the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) with conservation in mind
children, trial, will - Problem solving flexibility across early development

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?":

trials, trial, patients, data, research, study, treatment, pandemic, analysis, time, participants, care, safety, results, use, studies, evidence, children, health, disease, phase, outcomes, risk, review, number, information, group, vaccine, drug, patient, effects, effect, days, consent, authors, design, intervention, cancer, protocol, impact, efficacy, outcome, events, analyses, control, case, methods, drugs, process, interventions

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:

used, included, reported, based, provide, made, controlled, need, showed, requiring, conducted, considered, following, compared, identified, relates, assess, given, taking, increased, developing, treat, found, leading, evaluate, reduce, missed, receiving, performed, define, collected, see, remain, participate, allowing, suggesting, improve, supporting, tested, ensure, continued, published, randomized, associated, registered, existing, described, complete, involves, changing

Proper Nouns

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

COVID-19, GenV, Health, SARS, Clinical, Phase, Fig, •, Trials, CoV-2, China, COPD, Table, Research, IT, iPad, Data, RCTs, RCT, Trial, CI, meta, US, United, Committee, FDA, Coronavirus, University, National, March, TCM, States, International, sha, II, ClinicalTrials.gov, remdesivir, World, Medical, Korea, Hydroxychloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, Group, DOI, MERS, April, Organization, Meta, European, ICU

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?"

we, it, their, they, our, its, i, them, he, his, you, us, her, she, one, itself, themselves, him, my, your, me, himself, ourselves, mg, s, myself, il-12, em, 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?"

clinical, new, randomized, respiratory, available, medical, first, primary, adverse, many, covid-19, non, high, different, severe, statistical, standard, acute, additional, potential, possible, multiple, important, patient, randomised, specific, low, large, systematic, significant, relevant, public, single, scientific, efficient, individual, current, serious, social, similar, ongoing, ethical, key, negative, effective, therapeutic, likely, informed, several, human

also, well, however, even, often, therefore, first, potentially, especially, currently, significantly, less, rather, prior, alone, now, furthermore, daily, yet, specifically, still, particularly, highly, already, previously, directly, likely, typically, critically, relatively, recently, rapidly, finally, twice, moreover, indeed, generally, fully, clinically, sometimes, quickly, always, usually, never, instead, worldwide, much, early, approximately, respectively

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.

Again, study carrels are self-contained. Download this carrel for offline viewing and use.

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