Table 3 Inter-indexer consistency statistics - past and present studies
From: 12 years on – Is the NLM medical text indexer still useful and relevant?
Marcetich & Schuyler | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lancaster | Leonard | Manual | Computer | Funk & Reid | MTI | MTIFL | |
Year of study | 1968 | 1975 | 1981 | 1981 | 1983 | 2014 | 2014 |
Number of articles | 16 | 100 | 50 | 50 | 760 | 673,125 | 27,068 |
Checktags (CT) | – | – | – | – | 74.70% | 62.01% | 70.91% |
Geographics (GEOG) | – | – | – | – | 56.60% | 41.52% | 57.24% |
Descriptors (DESC) | 46.10% | 48.20% | – | – | 55.40% | 40.85% | 53.97% |
Main headings (MH) | – | – | – | – | 48.20% | 35.17% | 48.89% |
All main headings (no Checktags) | – | – | 39% | 43% | – | 35.29% | 49.12% |