What is in PubMed?

PubMed Overview The PubMed database contains more than 33 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher’s website or PubMed Central (PMC).

What does or mean in PubMed?

Boolean Operators AND is used when you’re looking for articles that contain ALL of your search terms (narrows your search). OR is used when you’re looking for articles that contain AT LEAST ONE of your search terms (broadens your search; often used for synonyms).

Which is better Scopus or PubMed?

PubMed remains an optimal tool in biomedical electronic research. Scopus covers a wider journal range, of help both in keyword searching and citation analysis, but it is currently limited to recent articles (published after 1995) compared with Web of Science.

Is PubMed full text?

PubMed does not contain full text articles, but in some cases you can link through to them. Articles in PubMed where free full text links are available are indicated in the results list. Links to the full text can then be found when viewing the article in Abstract view.

What is PubMed indexed?

PubMed is an indexing service for journals in the medical profession, just as IEEE includes journals in computer science and mathematics, and Scopus and World of Science that are indexing journals from many disciplines. A journal can be indexed in several databases.

What does MH mean in PubMed?

MeSH headings [MH] PubMed automatically searches the MeSH headings as well as the more specific terms beneath that heading in the MeSH hierarchy. This is known as the explosion feature. Example: eye [mh] will retrieve citations indexed to: Eye.

What is difference between PubMed and MEDLINE?

MEDLINE and PubMed®: MEDLINE is a project that oversees the selection of NLM-approved journals. MEDLINE is the main part of PubMed, an online, searchable, database of research literature in the biomedical and life sciences. PubMed includes links to many full-text journal articles via PubMed Central.

What is PubMed ID?

PMID is the unique identifier number used in PubMed. They are assigned to each article record when it enters the PubMed system, so an in-press publication will not have one unless it is issued as an electronic pre-pub. The PMID# is always found at the end of a PubMed citation.

How many journals are in PubMed?

Approximately 30,000 records are included in the PubMed journal list which is updated daily and includes all MEDLINE® titles as well as other non-MEDLINE titles in PubMed.

Is PubMed a journal or database?

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintain the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.