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The problem is getting the data: a list of papers and their references/bibliography. The great thing about the arXiv is that the papers are open-access, that it is updated daily, and that the daily-update is immediately available to data-mining. Is there a similar thing for med/biomed?

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Unfortunately no. Many med/bio publications are subscription only. To do something like paperscape, you would need a massive corpus of papers, which would really cost a lot. Pubmed only has abstracts, not the citations from the paper.

Right, but there's a subset of Open Access articles from Pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/openftlist/

That's true, but coverage of seminal papers is not that great in Pubmed central from my experience. This may change now that there is a push for all publicly funded research to become open access immediately or after 1 or 2 years.

Thanks for the link. We will look into the Pubmed data and see if any of it can be included in the map.

There is always pubmed[1].

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

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