reutils (version 0.1.1)

ecitmatch: ecitmatch - searching PubMed with citation data

Description

ecitmatch serves as an API to the PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/batchcitmatch{batch citation matcher}. It retrieves PubMed IDs (PMIDs) that correspond to a set of input citation strings.

Usage

ecitmatch(bdata, db = "pubmed", retmode = "xml")

Arguments

bdata

Citation strings. Each input citation must be represented by a citation string in the following format: journal_title|year|volume|first_page|author_name|your_key|

db

Database to search. The only supported value is pubmed.

retmode

Retrieval mode The only supported value is xml.

Value

• An ecitmatch object.

Examples

citstrings <- c("proc natl acad sci u s a|1991|88|3248|mann bj|Art1|",
                "science|1987|235|182|palmenber ac|Art2|")
x <- ecitmatch(citstrings)
x
content(x)