Europe PMC Biomedical Literature Normalizer
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Europe PMC Biomedical Literature Normalizer
Search Europe PMC and receive clean, deduplicated biomedical papers with normalized authors, DOI, MeSH terms, open-access links and citation metadata.
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Europe PMC Biomedical Literature Normalizer
Search the live Europe PMC biomedical literature index and get normalized, deduplicated papers ready for research and healthcare workflows. Europe PMC provides access to more than 40 million publications and millions of open-access full texts.
Free API. No API key required.
Features
- Topic, disease, drug, gene, title and author search
- DOI and PMID/PMCID identifiers preserved and DOI values lower-cased consistently
- Deduplicated authors and papers
- Clean titles and abstracts, journal/publisher metadata, publication types and MeSH terms
- Citation counts and open-access full-text links
- Optional open-access-only filtering
- Dataset records plus formatted OUTPUT and machine-readable STATS
Inputs
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
searchQuery | string | Biomedical search expression |
maxResults | integer | 1–100 papers, default 20 |
openAccessOnly | boolean | Only return open-access records, default false |
Example input
{"searchQuery":"long covid","maxResults":20,"openAccessOnly":true}
Example output
{"pmid":"...","pmcid":"PMC...","title":"Normalized paper title","doi":"10.xxxx/example","authors":[{"name":"Jane Doe","authorId":"jane doe"}],"meshTerms":["Long COVID"],"isOpenAccess":true,"citationCount":42,"fullTextUrl":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC..."}
Use cases
- Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis
- Pharma and biotech competitive intelligence
- Biomedical trend and citation analysis
- Clinical research discovery and knowledge graphs
- Open-access monitoring for libraries and research teams
Data source attribution
Data is sourced from Europe PMC and the Europe PMC REST API. Europe PMC is developed by EMBL-EBI with support from the Europe PMC Funders' Group.