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. 2011 May 27;12:212. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-212

Table 4.

Average sentence, base and full NP lengths (in tokens)

Subdomain Sentence length Average Base NP length Average Full NP length
Vascular Diseases 28.665 1.803 3.580
Physiology 26.663 1.793 3.410
Molecular Biology 26.330 1.844 3.436
Environmental Health 26.101 1.790 3.470
Rheumatology 26.016 1.805 3.447
Biochemistry 25.981 1.846 3.569
Geriatrics 25.920 1.768 3.427
Botany 25.874 1.835 3.415
Ethics 25.842 1.655 3.172
Science 25.840 1.812 3.403
Microbiology 25.704 1.834 3.430
Tropical Medicine 25.536 1.788 3.524
Medicine 25.498 1.800 3.466
Genetics 25.433 1.827 3.424
Pulmonary Medicine 25.330 1.795 3.475
Virology 25.191 1.860 3.500
Biotechnology 25.077 1.859 3.518
Cell Biology 25.073 1.790 3.251
Neoplasms 24.983 1.849 3.467
Pharmacology 24.930 1.791 3.485
Veterinary Medicine 24.788 1.757 3.544
PMC 24.736 1.805 3.439
Public Health 24.712 1.755 3.383
Critical Care 24.611 1.802 3.471
Genetics, Medical 24.535 1.836 3.480
Psychiatry 24.482 1.752 3.412
Communicable Diseases 24.462 1.785 3.438
Embryology 24.393 1.819 3.316
Complementary Therapies 24.162 1.749 3.340
Obstetrics 24.159 1.754 3.467
Pediatrics 23.870 1.739 3.449
Gastroenterology 23.837 1.793 3.477
Education 23.653 1.719 3.303
Medical Informatics 23.579 1.785 3.365
Biomedical Engineering 23.510 1.835 3.635
Therapeutics 23.478 1.749 3.399
Neurology 23.033 1.787 3.358
Endocrinology 22.679 1.799 3.401
Newswire 19.128 1.603 3.067
Ophthalmology 17.326 1.763 3.366