How to mine a list of papers for overrepresented MeSH terms?

Question

[biotech]

I've been recently asked to write a review paper. I found that the field of study I'm trying to write is wide, and I would like to give an unbiased overview of what has been published.

Given a list of Pubmed IDs vs MeSH terms, I would like to perform a MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) term enrichment, giving as a result some p-values based on Fisher's exact test, for example.

Maybe this strategy has been already implemented or there is a similar method to achieve the same goal.

Note. This question has also been posted in academia stack forum.

[biotech]

This method has already been implemented but unfortunately its MeSH database is outdated. Maybe worth to build this tool using some R packages. http://meshop.oicr.on.ca/meshop/index.html

Answer 1

[Mary]

They've cut back on some of the functions it used to have, but we liked XplorMed.

You should see PubMatrix too.

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