EU Clinical Trials Register

Screenshot of EU Clinical Trials Register
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-25
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
European Medicines Agency
Location of system headquarters:
Amsterdam, NL
Year of launch:
2004
Type:
Clinical trials database
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)

The EU Clinical Trials Register contains information on interventional clinical trials on medicines conducted in the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area (EEA) which started after 1 May 2004. Clinical trials conducted outside the EU/EEA are included if: 1) they form part of a paediatric investigation plan (PIP), or: 2) they are sponsored by a marketing authorisation holder, and involve the use of a medicine in the paediatric population as part of an EU marketing authorisation.

Total coverage:
41.55K
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
31.94%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
2004–2022
Record types:
1
Open Access records:
N/A

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:
limited 
Backward citation searching:
limited 
Forward citation searching:
limited 
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
0

Query

Latency with short query:
0.56 seconds
Latency with long query:
1.09 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
0
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
250 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
250 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):

Operators

Search operators:
2
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:
0
Results filters:
10
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:
Full
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
20
Export formats:
1
API:
no 
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
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