epmc_refs function

Get references for a given publication

This function retrieves all the works listed in the bibliography of a given article.

epmc_refs(ext_id = NULL, data_src = "med", limit = 100, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

• ext_id: character, publication identifier

• data_src: character, data source, by default Pubmed/MedLine index will be searched.

  The following three letter codes represent the sources Europe PubMed Central supports:

  • agr: Agricola is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the US National Agricultural Library and its co-operators.
  • cba: Chinese Biological Abstracts
  • ctx: CiteXplore
  • eth: EthOs Theses, i.e. PhD theses (British Library)
  • hir: NHS Evidence
  • med: PubMed/Medline NLM
  • nbk: Europe PMC Book metadata
  • pat: Biological Patents
  • pmc: PubMed Central

• limit: integer, number of results. By default, this function returns 100 records.

• verbose: logical, print some information on what is going on.

Returns

returns reference section as tibble

Examples

## Not run:

epmc_refs("PMC3166943", data_src = "pmc")
epmc_refs("25378340")
epmc_refs("21753913")
## End(Not run)