pubmedR: Gathering Metadata About Publications, Grants, Clinical Trials from 'PubMed' Database

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from 'PubMed' database using 'NCBI' REST API <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/develop/api/>. It includes functions to search, download, and convert 'PubMed' bibliographic records into data frames compatible with the 'bibliometrix' package. Features include programmatic query building, batch downloading by PMID, citation enrichment via 'NCBI' E-Link, and robust error handling with automatic retry logic.

Version:	1.0.0
Imports:	rentrez, XML
Suggests:	bibliometrix, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published:	2026-04-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.pubmedR
Author:	Massimo Aria [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Massimo Aria <massimo.aria at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/massimoaria/pubmedR/issues
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://github.com/massimoaria/pubmedR
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	pubmedR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	pubmedR.html , pubmedR.pdf
Vignettes:	pubmedR: A brief example (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	pubmedR_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: pubmedR_0.0.3.zip, r-release: pubmedR_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: pubmedR_0.0.3.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): pubmedR_0.0.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pubmedR_0.0.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pubmedR_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pubmedR_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources:	pubmedR archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:

bibliometrix

Linking:

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