Abstract
Keywords, discoverability, and impact.
Highlights
Editors’ Note: Keywords will improve the article impact and are necessary for Journal of the Medical Library Association articles
When the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) asked me to write a piece about author keywords in MEDLINE structured abstracts [1], the first thing I did was search for ‘‘keywords’’ in Google and Google Scholar
Google and Google Scholar returned a deluge of information (721 million and 4.35 million hits, respectively)
Summary
Editors’ Note: Keywords will improve the article impact and are necessary for Journal of the Medical Library Association articles. When the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) asked me to write a piece about author keywords in MEDLINE structured abstracts [1], the first thing I did was search for ‘‘keywords’’ in Google and Google Scholar. In the search engine optimization (SEO) domain, keywords are terms that improve page rank.
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