Europe PMC

Europe PMC is a company surfaced via the API Evangelist harvest backlog (source: tag-qc) and added to the network as a stub for full-pipeline profiling.

Europe PMC is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Europepmc API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company.

The Europe PMC catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Europe PMC’s developer surface includes documentation and 16 more developer resources.

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22.4/100 emerging ▲ 8.1 Agent 19/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs

Company

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 22.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 3.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 11.7 — up to +22.1 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Europe PMC API

Provides RESTful access to articles and grants.

Europe PMC Europepmc API

The Europepmc API from Europe PMC — 2 operation(s) for europepmc.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Europe PMC API Rules

25 rules · 23 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Europe Pmc Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Europe Pmc Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Spectral

Spectral

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Roadmap

Roadmap

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: europe-pmc
name: Europe PMC
description: 'Europe PMC is a company surfaced via the API Evangelist harvest backlog (source: tag-qc) and added to the network
  as a stub for full-pipeline profiling.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/europe-pmc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: blocked
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-13'
modified: '2026-10-13'
tags:
- Company
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/europe-pmc-agentic-access.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/europe-pmc-vocabulary.yml
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://europepmc.org/Roadmap
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://europepmc.org/PrivacyNotice
- type: Login
  url: https://europepmc.org/accounts/login
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://europepmc.org/developers
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/europe-pmc-rules.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/europe-pmc-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/europe-pmc-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/europe-pmc-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/europe-pmc-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/europe-pmc-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/europe-pmc-packages.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.europepmc.org/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/EuropePMC
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/europe-pmc-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://europepmc.org
apis:
- name: Europe PMC API
  description: Provides RESTful access to articles and grants.
  humanURL: https://dev.europepmc.org/developers
  baseURL: https://dev.europepmc.org
  aid: europe-pmc:europe-pmc-api
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/europe-pmc-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
- aid: europe-pmc:europe-pmc-europepmc-api
  name: Europe PMC Europepmc API
  description: The Europepmc API from Europe PMC — 2 operation(s) for europepmc.
  humanURL: https://dev.europepmc.org/developers
  baseURL: https://dev.europepmc.org
  tags:
  - Europepmc
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/europe-pmc-europepmc-api-openapi.yml
x-coverage:
  state: blocked
  reason: bot-challenge
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-10-14'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company's own front door answers a browser with an anti-bot challenge, so nothing behind it is reachable by
    any reader
  evidence:
  - url: https://europepmc.org/mcp
    status: 403
  - url: https://europepmc.org
    status: 403
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Europe PMC API — frequently asked questions

Does Europe PMC have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Europe PMC, including Europe PMC API and Europe PMC Europepmc API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Europe PMC API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Europe PMC, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Europe PMC API ready for AI agents?

Europe PMC has a Kin Score of 22.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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