# PMC ID Converter API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-id-converter-api/  
**Provider:** PubMed — https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/  
**Base URL:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/idconv/api/v1/articles/  
**Documentation:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/developers/

PMC ID Converter API is one of 10 APIs that [PubMed](https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include identifier, Conversion, PMID, PMCID, and DOI. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The PMC ID Converter API translates between different article identifier formats including PubMed IDs (PMIDs), PubMed Central IDs (PMCIDs), Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and manuscript IDs. Essential for cross-referencing articles across databases and citation systems.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/idconv/
- **Plans** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/plans/entrez-eutils.yml
- **FinOps** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/finops/entrez-eutils.yml

## Other PubMed APIs (9)

- [PubMed Central OA API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-central-oa-api/)
- [PMC OAI-PMH API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-oai-pmh-api/)
- [PMC BioC API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-bioc-api/)
- [PubMed History API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-history-api/)
- [PubMed Info API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-info-api/)
- [PubMed Links API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-links-api/)
- [PubMed Retrieval API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-retrieval-api/)
- [PubMed Search API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-search-api/)
- [PubMed Summary API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-summary-api/)

## Tags

identifier, Conversion, PMID, PMCID, DOI, PMC

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