europepmc facilitates access to the Europe PMC RESTful Web Service.
Europe PMC covers life science literature and gives access to open access full texts. Europe PMC ingests all PubMed content and extends its index with other sources, including Agricola, a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature, or Biological Patents.
For more infos on Europe PMC, see:
Levchenko, M., Gou, Y., Graef, F., Hamelers, A., Huang, Z., Ide-Smith, M., … McEntyre, J. (2017). Europe PMC in 2017. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(D1), D1254–D1260. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1005
This client supports the following API methods:
| API-Method | Description | R functions |
|---|---|---|
| search | Search Europe PMC and get detailed metadata | epmc_search(), epmc_details() |
| profile | Obtain a summary of hit counts for several Europe PMC databases | epmc_profile(), epmc_profile_hits() |
| citations | Load metadata representing citing articles for a given publication | epmc_citations() |
| references | Retrieve the reference section of a pubication | epmc_refs() |
| databaseLinks | Get links to biological databases such as UniProt or ENA | epmc_db(), epmc_db_count() |
| labslinks | Access links to Europe PMC provided by third parties | epmc_lablinks(), epmc_lablinks_count() |
| textMinedTerms | Retrieve text-mined terms | epmc_tm(), epmc_tm_count() |
| fullTextXML | Fetch full-texts deposited in PMC | epmc_ftxt() |
| bookXML | retrieve book XML formatted full text for the Open Access subset of the Europe PMC bookshelf | epmc_ftxt_book() |
From CRAN
install.packages("europepmc")The latest development version can be installed using devtools package:
require(devtools)
install_github("ropensci/europepmc")Loading into R
library(europepmc)The search covers both metadata (e.g. abstracts or title) and full texts. To
build your query, please refer to the comprehensive guidance on how to search
Europe PMC: http://europepmc.org/help. Simply provide your query in the Europe
PMC search syntax to epmc_search().
europepmc::epmc_search("Lagotto Romagnolo")
#> # A tibble: 42 x 27
#> id source pmid doi title authorString journalTitle issue
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 28583… MED 28583… 10.1… Basal A… Syrjä P, Anwar … Vet Pathol 6
#> 2 25945… MED 25945… 10.1… Behavio… Jokinen TS, Tii… J Vet Inter… 4
#> 3 24354… MED 24354… 10.1… FDG-PET… Jokinen TS, Haa… Vet Radiol … 3
#> 4 17552… MED 17552… 10.1… Benign … Jokinen TS, Met… J Vet Inter… 3
#> 5 17490… MED 17490… 10.1… Cerebel… Jokinen TS, Rus… J Small Ani… 8
#> 6 29056… MED 29056… 10.1… Relatio… Byosiere SE, Fe… Behav Proce… <NA>
#> 7 27525… MED 27525… 10.1… Genetic… Donner J, Kauko… PLoS One 8
#> 8 29166… MED 29166… 10.1… Frequen… Zierath S, Hugh… PLoS One 11
#> 9 29237… MED 29237… 10.1… Molecul… Yu Y, Hasegawa … BMC Vet Res 1
#> 10 25875… MED 25875… 10.1… A misse… Kyöstilä K, Syr… PLoS Genet 4
#> # ... with 32 more rows, and 19 more variables: journalVolume <chr>,
#> # pubYear <chr>, journalIssn <chr>, pageInfo <chr>, pubType <chr>,
#> # isOpenAccess <chr>, inEPMC <chr>, inPMC <chr>, hasPDF <chr>,
#> # hasBook <chr>, citedByCount <int>, hasReferences <chr>,
#> # hasTextMinedTerms <chr>, hasDbCrossReferences <chr>,
#> # hasLabsLinks <chr>, hasTMAccessionNumbers <chr>,
#> # firstPublicationDate <chr>, pmcid <chr>, hasSuppl <chr>By default, epmc_search() returns 100 records. To adjust the limit, simply use
the limit parameter.
See vignette Introducing europepmc, an R interface to Europe PMC RESTful API for a long-form documentation about how to search Europe PMC with this client.
There is also a nice function allowing you to easily create review graphs like described in Maëlle Salmon's blog post:
tt_oa <- europepmc::epmc_hits_trend("Malaria", period = 1995:2016, synonym = FALSE)
tt_oa
#> # A tibble: 22 x 3
#> year all_hits query_hits
#> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1995 448477 1485
#> 2 1996 458064 1560
#> 3 1997 455691 1853
#> 4 1998 473173 1749
#> 5 1999 492786 1935
#> 6 2000 531286 2127
#> 7 2001 544411 2203
#> 8 2002 560843 2352
#> 9 2003 587503 2554
#> 10 2004 627130 2748
#> # ... with 12 more rows
# we use ggplot2 for plotting the graph
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(tt_oa, aes(year, query_hits / all_hits)) +
geom_point() +
geom_line() +
xlab("Year published") +
ylab("Proportion of articles on Malaria in Europe PMC")
For more info, read the vignette about creating literature review graphs:
https://ropensci.github.io/europepmc/articles/evergreenreviewgraphs.html
Chris Stubben (@cstubben) has created an Shiny App that allows you to search and browse Europe PMC:
https://cstubben.shinyapps.io/euPMC/
- Data dumps: https://europepmc.org/FtpSite
- OAI service: https://europepmc.org/OaiService
- SOAP web service: https://europepmc.org/SoapWebServices
- Grants RESTful (Grist) API: https://europepmc.org/GristAPI
- use rOpenSci's
oaito get metadata and full text via Europe PMC's OAI interface: https://github.com/ropensci/oai - use rOpenSci's
rentrezto interact with NCBI databases such as PubMed: https://github.com/ropensci/rentrez - rOpenSci's
fulltextpackage gives access to supplementary material of open access life-science publications in Europe PMC: https://github.com/ropensci/fulltext
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
License: GPL-3
Please use the issue tracker for bug reporting and feature requests.
