RefManageR (version 1.4.0)

ReadPubMed: Search NCBI's E-Utilities for citation information

Description

This function takes a query and searches an Entrez database for references using NCBI's E-Utilities, returning the results in a BibEntry object.

Usage

ReadPubMed(query, database = "PubMed", ...)

Value

an object of class BibEntry.

Arguments

query

string; search term.

database

string; the Entrez database to search.

...

additional parameters to use for the search. See the Details.

Details

Optional additional parameters to pass to the server include

• retstart - index of the first retrieved ID that should be included in the results.

• retmax - maximum number of IDs the server will return (default 20).

• field - limits the query to search only the specified field (e.g. “title”).

• datetype - type of date to use when limiting search by dates. E.g. “mdat” for modification date or “pdat” for publication date.

• reldate - integer; only items that have (datetype) date values within reldate days of the current date will be returned.

• mindate, maxdate - date ranges to restrict search results. Possible formats are “YYYY”, “YYYY/MM”, and “YYYY/MM/DD”.

References

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.ESearch

See Also

Other pubmed: GetPubMedByID(), GetPubMedRelated(), LookupPubMedID(), ReadCrossRef()

Examples

if (interactive() && !httr::http_error("https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"))
  ReadPubMed(query = "raymond carroll measurement error", retmax = 5, mindate = 1990)