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GetPubMedByID {RefManageR} | R Documentation

## Retrieve citation information from NCBI's Entrez for a set of PubMed IDs

### Description

Uses NCBI's E-Utilities to retrieve bibliographic information given a vector of PubMed ID's and returns the results as a BibEntry object.

### Usage

    GetPubMedByID(id, db = "pubmed", ...)

### Arguments

`id` | character vector; PubMed ID's for searching NCBI's Entrez.
`db` | string; Entrez database to search.
`...` | additional parameters to use for the search. See the Entrez documentation listed in the References.

### Value

a BibEntry object.

### Note

Returned entries will have `bibtype` “Article” or “Book”, unless a collection title is present – in which case the `bibtype` will be “InBook” – or there is no journal information returned for an article – in which case the `bibtype` will be “Misc”.

### References

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/

### See Also

Other pubmed: `GetDOIs`, `GetPubMedRelated`, `LookupPubMedID`, `ReadCrossRef`, `ReadPubMed`

### Examples

    if (interactive() && !httr::http_error("https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"))
      GetPubMedByID(c("11209037", "21245076"))

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