Questions tagged [pubmed]

PubMed comprises around 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

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Why are some PubMed IDs missing?

PubMed IDs (a.k.a. PMIDs) seem to have been assigned sequentially: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4 ... However, some some…
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How does PubMed obtain papers' metadata?

I wonder how PubMed obtains papers' metadata. In particular, I am interested in the metadata used for these filters: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Review%22[pt]
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