Default sort option for Entrez.esearch is 'Most Recent', or it may just sort by PMID descending. This causes (1) a lot of papers to be missing in our database, and (2) our analysis to work not well due to limited amount of citations within the recent papers.
I suggest implementing 'Best Match' sort option, it should correspond to the 'sort=relevance' in the API call (does not reproduce the results from Pubmed page for me, but still brings some diversity):
olegs
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2 years ago
Default sort option for Entrez.esearch is 'Most Recent', or it may just sort by PMID descending. This causes (1) a lot of papers to be missing in our database, and (2) our analysis to work not well due to limited amount of citations within the recent papers.
I suggest implementing 'Best Match' sort option, it should correspond to the 'sort=relevance' in the API call (does not reproduce the results from Pubmed page for me, but still brings some diversity):
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&term=brain+computer+interface&retmax=5&sort=relevance