Embase (via Ovid)

Latest screenshot: 2023-01-18

Access to search interface:

paywalled

Last major interface update:

N/A

Owner of search system:

Wolters Kluwer N.V.

Location of system headquarters:

Alphen aan den Rijn, NL

Year of launch:

1973

Type:

Aggregators' database

URL:

N/A

Help URL:

https://ospguides.ovid.com/OSPguides/embase.htm

X-Handle:

@ovid_wkhealth

Description of database (by system owner)

Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology.

Description of search system (by system owner)

At Ovid, we offer more than 100 core and niche databases—from Ovid MEDLINE to PsycINFO and Embase to AMED, HaPI, and Maternity and Infant Care—to support the breadth of learning, research and practice needs in a wide range of disciplines, from clinical medicine and pharmacology to engineering and religious studies.

Notes

Embase (1974 - current)

Total coverage:

36.76M

Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):

8.99%

Subject coverage:

Medicine (56.31 %); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15.5 %); Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (5.76 %)

Retrospective coverage:

1972–2022

Record types:

Open Access records:

N/A

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:

extensive

Backward citation searching:

limited

Forward citation searching:

limited

Query builder:

Search history:

Match preview:

Sorting options:

Query

Latency with short query:

1.1 seconds

Latency with long query:

6.5 seconds

Controlled vocabulary:

Field codes:

122

Full text search:

Search string length (narrow):

2000 terms max.

Search string length (wide):

1000 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:

Boolean 'OR':

Boolean 'AND':

Boolean 'NOT':

Proximity operator:

Boolean works exact:

Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:

Results filters:

Suggested related records:

Supported by bibliometric tools:

N/A

Backward citation information:

Backward citation score:

0.00%

Forward citation information:

Forward citation score:

N/A

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:

Full

Bulk select records:

Bulk export records:

1000

Export formats:

API:

Bulk select records' backward citations:

Bulk export backward citations:

Bulk select records' forward citations:

Bulk export forward citations:

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