:(3) Technical terms in clinical studies

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Key words are very useful for examining scientific articles. Because technical terms to be used in the title of these articles may be chosen as the key words with high potential, they must be used in correct and universal ways. The present study was designed to analyse technical terms used in the title of 1, 491 clinical reports which had presented in the Japanese Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from the standpoint of information science. The resultc are summarized below. 1) The kind of technical terms used in the original form of articles reviewed counted 1, 885 in total and its frequency summed to 4, 811. 2) About 75% of these technical terms were used only once in their title of article. 3) Approximately half of the only once-used terms were possible to revise into synonyms or compound words of more frequently used terms. 4) When technical terms were classified according to the use, some characteristics were found in each group. 5) It was known that, in controlling these technical terms, much attention should be paid to less-frequently used terms, synonyms and compound words. From these results, rules in selecting key words were further discussed.
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