README.md

In shihikoo/pubmedTools: Tools for retriving information from PubMed database

pubmedTools

'pubmedTools' is an R package helping researchers extracting data from PubMed using Entrez Programming Utilities (E-utilities) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/

It is highly recommonded to register a NCBI account and created an API Key. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/

The tool contains different functions to retrive meta-data (such as DOI, pdf link, journal, year, author, corresponding author, affiliation etc.) using provided PubMed Id or PubMed Central Id.

Example:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("shihikoo/pubmedTools")
library(pubmedTools)
searchTerm = "pinkeye"
output <- RetriveMetaDataFromSearch(searchTerm, columns = c("pmid","pmcid", "journal",
                       "journalCountry",
                       "publicationYear",
                       "funders",
                       "authors",
                       "affiliations",
                       "title",
                       "abstract","isbn",
                       "volume",
                       "issue",
                       "pages", "keywords","doi"))

shihikoo/pubmedTools documentation built on June 19, 2021, 9:56 a.m.