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Published online 2009 Nov 27. doi: 10.1093/database/bap018
Table 1.
Illustration of user actions and their corresponding information in log data
| User action | Log information | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| PubMed search | Session IDa | abcd0123456 |
| Timestamp | 2008-03-01T10:32:17 | |
| Search term | Lapierre p | |
| Number of returned citations | 26 | |
| Abstract view | Session ID | abcd0123456 |
| Timestamp | 2008-03-01T10:35:45 | |
| Clicked PubMed identifier | 18197971 | |
| Ordinal position of clicked citation | 1 | |
| Full-text view | Session ID | abcd0123456 |
| Timestamp | 2008-03-01T10:35:49 | |
| Referring URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/18197971?ordinalpos=1 | |
| LinkOut URL | http://www.PubMedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=PubMed |
aAlthough session ID’s are anonymous, we use mock session ID’s in this article.