Selected Publications

Tuomela MS, Fegley BD, Torvik VI. Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors. SIG/MET workshop, ASIST Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark. October 14, 2016.

Mishra S, Torvik VI. Quantifying conceptual novelty in the biomedical literature. D-Lib Magazine 2016; 22(9/10).

Prosperi M, Buchan I, Fanti I, Meloni S, Palladino P, Torvik VI. Kin of coauthorship in five decades of health science literature. PNAS 2016; 113(32): 8957-8962

Kehoe AK, Torvik VI. Predicting Medical Subject Headings Based on Abstract Similarity and Citations to MEDLINE Records. Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016; 167-170.

Torvik VI, Agarwal S. Ethnea -- an instance-based ethnicity classifier based on geo-coded author names in a large-scale bibliographic database. International Symposium on Science of Science March 22-23, 2016. Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.

Torvik VI. MapAffil: A bibliographic tool for mapping author affiliation strings to cities and their geocodes worldwide. D-Lib Magazine 2015; 21(11/12).

Li G-C, Lai R, D"Amour A, Doolin DM, Sun Y, Torvik VI, Yu AZ, Fleming L. Disambiguation and co-authorship networks of the US patent inventor database (1975-2010). Research Policy 2014; 43(6): 941-955.

Hurley LA, Ogier AL, Torvik VI. Deconstructing the collaborative impact: Article and author characteristics that influence citation count. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2013.

Smith BN, Singh M, Torvik VI. A search engine approach to estimating temporal changes in gender orientation of first names. Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries 2013; 199-208.

Fegley BD, Torvik VI. On the role of poetic versus nonpoetic features in "kindred" and diachronic poetry attribution. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2012; 63(11):2165-2181.

Smalheiser NR, Zhou W, Torvik VI. Distribution of "Characteristic" Terms in MEDLINE Literatures. Information 2011; 2(2):266-276.

Smalheiser NR, Lugli G, Rizavi HS, Zhang H, Torvik VI, Pandey GN, Davis JM, Dwivedi Y. MicroRNA expression in rat brain exposed to repeated inescapable shock: differential alterations in learned helplessness vs. non-learned helplessness. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2011; 28:1-11. [Epub ahead of print]

Smalheiser NR, Lugli G, Lenon AL, Davis JM, Torvik VI, Larson J. Olfactory discrimination training up-regulates and reorganizes expression of microRNAs in adult mouse hippocampus. ASN Neuro, 2010; 2(1):e00028.

Torvik VI, Renear AH, Smalheiser NR, Marshall CC. Beyond (Simple) Reading: Strategies, Discoveries, and Collaborations. Proc. ASIST Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 2009.

Torvik VI, Smalheiser NR. Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 2009, 3(3):11.
See accompanied Author-ity tools.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Author name disambiguation. In Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (B. Cronin, Ed.), Vol. 43 (2009), pp. 287-313.
A preprint version of this chapter is available here, and the final print version is available from the publisher Information Today, Inc.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI, Zhou W. Arrowsmith two-node search interface: A tutorial on finding meaningful links between two disparate sets of articles in MEDLINE. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2009; 94(2): 190-197.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI . The place of literature-based discovery in contemporary scientific practice. In "Literature-based Discovery" (M. Weeber and P. Bruza, Eds.), Information Science and Knowledge Management series, Springer, 2008, pp. 13-22.

Smalheiser NR, Lugli G, Torvik VI, Mise N, Ikeda R, Abe K. Natural antisense transcripts are co-expressed with sense mRNAs in synaptoneurosomes of adult mouse forebrain. Neuroscience Research 2008; 62(4): 236-239.

Lugli G, Torvik VI, Larson J, Smalheiser NR. Expression of microRNAs and their precursors in synaptic fractions of adult mouse forebrain. Journal of Neurochemistry 2008; 106(2): 650-661.

Smalheiser NR, Zhou W, Torvik, VI. Anne O'Tate: A tool to support user-driven summarization, drill-down and browsing of PubMed search results. J Biomed Discov Collab. 2008; 3:2. Epub Feb 15.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Models of microRNA-target coordination. In: "microRNAs: From Basic Science to Disease Biology" (K. Appasani, ed.) 2008, pp. 221-226.

Torvik VI, Smalheiser NR. A quantitative model for linking two disparate sets of articles in Medline. Bioinformatics 2007; 23(13): 1658-1665. Supplementary figures and tables.

Zhou W, Yu C, Smalheiser N, Torvik V, Hong J. Knowledge-intensive conceptual retrieval and passage extraction of biomedical literature. Proc. 30th Ann. Intl. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, in press (this conference was peer-reviewed and had overall 18% acceptance rate).

Zhou W, Torvik VI, Smalheiser NR. ADAM: another database of abbreviations in Medline. Bioinformatics 2006; 22(22): 2813-2818.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Alu elements within human mRNAs are probable microRNA targets. Trends in Genetics 2006; 22(10): 532-536. Supplements: file 1(pdf), file 2(xls).

Zhou W, Yu C, Torvik VI, Smalheiser NR. A concept-based framework for passage retrieval in Genomics. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006) Baltimore, MD. 2006.

Swanson DR, Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Ranking indirect connections in literature-based discovery: The role of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). JASIST 2006;57(11):1427-1439.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI, Bischoff-Grethe A, Burhans LB, Gabriel M, Homayouni R, Kashef A, Martone ME, Perkins GA, Price DL, Talk AC, West R. Collaborative development of the Arrowsmith two node search interface designed for laboratory investigators. J Biomed Discov Collab. 2006 Jul 3;1(1):8.

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. Discovering rules that govern monotone phenomena. In "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques" (Triantaphyllou and Felici, eds.) Massive Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, 2006, Chapter 4: 149-192.

Zhang W, Yu C, Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Segmentation of publication records of authors from the web. Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06). Atlanta, GA. April, 2006.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Complications in mammalian microRNA target prediction. In: "MicroRNA: Protocols" (S.-Y. Ying, ed.), Methods in Molecular Biology series, Humana Press, 115-128, 2006.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. Mammalian microRNAs derived from genomic repeats. Trends in Genetics 2005; 21(6): 322-326. Supplements: file 1(pdf), file 2(pdf), file 3(xls).

Torvik VI, Weeber M, Swanson DR, Smalheiser NR. A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: a model for author name disambiguation. JASIST 2005; 56(2): 140-158.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. A population-based statistical approach identifies parameters characteristic of human microRNA-mRNA interactions. BMC Bioinformatics 2004;5:139.

Smalheiser NR, Torvik VI. A statistical approach predicts human microRNA targets. Genome Biology preprint repository 2004; 5: P4 (database deposited at BMC).

Brown GG, Pieper S, Martone M, Aucoin N, Joyner A, Bischoff-Grethe A, Torvik V. The Query Atlas: A brain referenced knowledge discovery tool. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2004.

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. Guided Inference of Nested Monotone Boolean Functions. Information Sciences 2003; 151: 171-200.

Torvik, VI. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: A Guided Approach Based on Monotone Boolean Functions. A Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. 2002.

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. Minimizing the Average Query Complexity of Learning Monotone Boolean Functions. INFORMS Journal on Computing 2002,14(2), 142-172.

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. Inference of Monotone Boolean Functions, In "Encyclopedia of Optimization" (Floudas and Pardalos, editors) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2, 472-480, 2001.

Kovalerchuk B, Triantaphyllou E, Ruiz JF, Torvik VI, Vityaev E. The Reliability Issue of Computer-Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Computers and Biomedical Research 2000, 33, 296-313.

Torvik VI, Triantaphyllou E. Predicting Muscle Fatigue via Electromyography: A Comparative Study. Proceedings of the 25th Int. Conference of Computers and Industrial Engineering 1999, New Orleans, LA, USA, 277-280.