GetPubMedByID {RefManageR}

Retrieve citation information from NCBI's Entrez for a set of PubMed IDs

Description

Uses NCBI's E-Utilities to retrieve bibliographic information given a vector of PubMed ID's and returns the results as a BibEntry object.

Usage

GetPubMedByID(id, db = "pubmed", ...)

Arguments

id

character vector; PubMed ID's for searching NCBI's Entrez.

db

string; Entrez database to search.

...

additional parameters to use for the search. See the Entrez documentation listed in the References.

Value

a BibEntry object.

Note

Returned entries will have bibtype “Article” or “Book”, unless a collection title is present – in which case the bibtype will be “InBook” – or there is no journal information returned for an article – in which case the bibtype will be “Misc”.

References

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/

See Also

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

Examples

if (interactive() && !httr::http_error("https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"))
  GetPubMedByID(c("11209037", "21245076"))