PubMed · Example Payload

Elink Related Articles

ELink example: Find related PubMed articles and linked PMC full-text records

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Elink Related Articles is an example object payload from PubMed, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

descriptionrequest_related_articlesrequest_pmc_linkresponse_structure

Example Payload

{
  "description": "ELink example: Find related PubMed articles and linked PMC full-text records",
  "request_related_articles": {
    "description": "Find related PubMed articles for a given PMID",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi",
    "parameters": {
      "dbfrom": "pubmed",
      "db": "pubmed",
      "id": "36328499",
      "cmd": "neighbor_score",
      "retmode": "json"
    }
  },
  "request_pmc_link": {
    "description": "Find PMC full-text links for a PubMed article",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi",
    "parameters": {
      "dbfrom": "pubmed",
      "db": "pmc",
      "id": "36328499",
      "cmd": "neighbor",
      "linkname": "pubmed_pmc"
    }
  },
  "response_structure": {
    "header": {
      "type": "elink",
      "version": "0.3"
    },
    "linksets": [
      {
        "dbfrom": "pubmed",
        "ids": ["36328499"],
        "linksetdbs": [
          {
            "dbto": "pubmed",
            "linkname": "pubmed_pubmed",
            "links": ["36328500", "36234567", "36123456"]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}