Europe PMC
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-27
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
Location of system headquarters:
Hinxton, UK
Year of launch:
2006
Type:
Bibliographic database
Help URL:
X-Handle:
Description of search system (by system owner)
Europe PubMed Central (PMC) is an open science platform that enables access to a worldwide collection of life science publications and preprints from trusted sources around the globe. […] We have over 5 million more abstracts than PubMed.
Total coverage:
39.84M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
5.69%
Subject coverage:
Medicine (52.09 %); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15.53 %); Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (5.07 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1799–2022
Record types:
70
Open Access records:
3.67M / 9.22%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
4
Query
Latency with short query:
2 seconds
Latency with long query:
7.49 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
28
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
100 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
50 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:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
69
Results filters:
16
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
VOSviewer
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
80.99%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
28.39%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
1000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
50000
Export formats:
7
API:
open
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
150
