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pubmedR (version 1.0.2)

Gathering Metadata About Publications, Grants, Clinical Trials from 'PubMed' Database

Description

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from 'PubMed' database using 'NCBI' REST API . It includes functions to search, download, and convert 'PubMed' bibliographic records into data frames compatible with the 'bibliometrix' package. Features include programmatic query building, batch downloading by PMID, citation enrichment via 'NCBI' E-Link, and robust error handling with automatic retry logic.

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install.packages('pubmedR')

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1.0.2

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GPL-3

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Massimo Aria

Last Published

May 4th, 2026

Functions in pubmedR (1.0.2)

pmApiRequest

Gather bibliographic content from PubMed database using NCBI entrez APIs
pmQueryTotalCount

Count the number of documents returned by a query
pmFetchById

Fetch PubMed records by PMID
pmCitedBy

Find articles that cite a given PubMed article
pmApi2df

Convert xml PubMed bibliographic data into a dataframe
pmQueryBuild

Build a PubMed search query programmatically
pmCollect

Collect and process PubMed bibliographic data in one step
pmReferences

Find references cited by a given PubMed article
pmExtractReferences

Extract references from PubMed XML records
pmEnrichCitations

Enrich a PubMed dataframe with citation data