NAME

cit2pmid - find candidate NCBI PubMed identifiers for a citation

SYNOPSIS

cit2pmid [ -debug] [ -strict] [ -remote|-eutils|-local| -exact|-verify] [ -asn file|-cit file] [ -title| -TITL str] [ -author|-FAUT|-LAUT str] [ -journal|-JOUR str] [ -year|-YEAR|-PDAT str] [ -volume|-VOL  str] [ -issue|-ISS  str] [ -page[s]|-PAGE  str]

DESCRIPTION

cit2pmid tries to identify NCBI PubMed identifiers corresponding to a supplied citation. Some modes search an indexed local NCBI PubMed archive (as prepared by index-pubmed(1)).

OPTIONS

-debug
Trace some aspects of execution.
-strict
Perform stricter matching (only in -local mode, at least for now).
-remote
Use nquire -citmatch remote service (default).
-eutils
Use esearch remote service.
-local
Use transmute -r2p (ref2pmid) for relaxed search with local archive.
-exact
Use phrase-search for strict matching with local archive.
-verify
Query against local archive with strict (but not -exact) matching then confirm positive candidates via citmatch.
-asn file
Read NCBI Pub ASN.1 from file ( - for standard input). Must be the only query specification.
-cit file
Read CITATION XML from file ( - for standard input). Must be the only query specification.
-title|-TITL str
Article title; may need other fields to disambiguate, especially if incomplete.
-author str
Author name (last name, optionally followed by initials); may appear twice, for first and last authors. (Otherwise, taken to be first author only.)
-FAUT str
Explicitly name first author.
-LAUT str
Explicitly name last author.
-journal|-JOUR str
Journal name.
-year|-YEAR|-PDAT str
Publication year.
-volume|-VOL str
Journal volume.
-issue|-ISS str
Journal issue.
-page[s]|-PAGE str
Journal page, or hyphenated range.

ENVIRONMENT

EDIRECT_PUBMED_MASTER
Local archive directory to use. Expected to hold an absolute path; mandatory for any mode besides -remote and -eutils.

SEE ALSO

edict(1), esearch(1), fetch-pubmed(1), index-pubmed(1), nquire(1), phrase-search(1), ref2pmid(1), transmute(1).

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