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Full Record

View all of the information about a record that is contained in the product database. The title of the document appears at the top of the page.

Any or all of the following fields may appear in a record, depending on the content and type of the source document. If no data are available for a particular field, then the field does not display.

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Full Record Fields

Title

The full title of the article. All titles are in English. If a title was originally published in another language and translated, then the title is enclosed in square brackets ( [ ] ). For example:

[Hepatic eosinophilic abscess presenting as a single nodular mass]

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Foreign Title

The vernacular title of the source publication in the original language (if the original language is not English). For example:

Title: [Use of sorafenib in patients with hepatocellular or renal carcinoma]
Foreign Title: Bon usage du sorafenib chez les patients pris en charge pour un carcinome hepatocellulaire ou un cancer du rein.

Note that non-Roman alphabet language titles are transliterated.

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By

The author(s) of the source document. Author names appear as last name followed by a first name and/or initials. If no author names exists in the database, then this field contains the names of corporate authors.

All author names from the source document are provided in records from 1994 to the present. Prior to 1994, up to ten authors are shown, with "et al" in the tenth position. Full first and middle names (if published) will appear in papers published in 2002 to the present.

Records of publications with no author(s) or corporate names display Anonymous in the Author field. A record of a collection of meeting abstracts will display abstracts in the Author field.

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Corporate Author(s)

The corporate or collective author of the source document.

Names of corporate authors always appear in the Corporate Author(s) field in MEDLINE records from 2001 to the present. In older records, the names of corporate authors may appear in the Title field.

Example: 
     Corporate Author(s): Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

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View ResearcherID and ORCID

This table lists the authors who have claimed the document as their work in ResearcherID or ORCID. Click an identifier to view the author's publication list in ResearcherID or ORCID. An author may have a ResearcherID or an ORCID iD or both identifiers.

If you are the author of the article, you can add it to your publication list in ResearcherID by clicking the arrow next to Save to EndNote online and selecting Save to ResearcherID.

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Source

Source records may include:

  • Source
  • Volume
  • Issue
  • Pages
  • Publication Date

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PubMed Related Articles Link

Click this link to go to the PubMed Related Articles page where you can view records of articles related to the Full Record you are viewing.

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Abstract

Abstract

A brief summary or description of the essential content from the source document.

English-language abstracts are taken directly from the published article. If the article does not have a published abstract, the National Library of Medicine does not create one. Generally, there are no abstracts for records created before 1975. All abstracts are in English. Because data entry policies at NLM have changed over the years, abstracts in records created before 2001 may be truncated, in which case one of the following phrases may appear at the end of the text enclosed in parentheses.

ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS
ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS
ABSTRACT TRUNCATED

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Other Abstract

A small number of records contain abstracts written by a collaborating partner. These abstracts are not taken from the source publication.

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Keywords

Keyword List

Author keywords are provided by the author(s) of the source article. They are taken directly from the source article and are identified as keywords in the source article.

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Author Information

Address

The address of the of the first listed author of the source publication. The Address field includes the e-mail address of the author, if provided by the source publication.

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Funding

Grant Information

The research grant or contract number (or both) that designates financial support by any agency of the United States Public Health Service or any institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Grant information was introduced in 1981.

A list of possible values is available in PubMed help at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/grant_acronym.html.

Note: Although NLM enters the grant number, the acronym and agency values are derived by using a machine algorithm against the grant number. This may result in some inaccurate derivations, but the overall benefit of supplying the separate acronym and agency was considered to be worth the risk of some inaccuracies.

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Categories / Classification

Research Areas

Research area of the source document. This field may contain more than one research area.

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MeSH Terms

Subject headings and qualifiers from the MEDLINE Thesaurus. If a term is marked with an asterisk (*), it is a major topic of the source document.

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Chemical

This field contains the names of drugs and other chemical substances from the Chemical Thesaurus.

The Registry Number column contains a unique five- to nine-digit number in hyphenated format assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service to specific chemical substances. For enzymes, the Enzyme Commission number derived from Enzyme Nomenclature.

The Name column contains the name of the substance that the registry number or the EC number identifies.

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Document Information

Document Type

The type of source document represented by the record. A record can have more than one document type.

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Language

The selected language of the source document.

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PubMed ID

A unique identification number assigned to each record in MEDLINE.

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NLM Unique ID

The alpha-numeric identifier for the source publication that was assigned by NLM's Integrated Library System, LocatorPlusTM at http://locatorplus.gov.

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Date Created / Date Completed

Date Created is the date the record is created, before full indexing and validation.

Date Completed is the date assigned to the record after full indexing and validation.

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Date Revised

Date Revised is the date when change(s) to a fully indexed and validated record are made.

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Published Electronically

The date that the source document was published electronically.

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Country/Region

The name of the country/region where the source journal was published. In older records, "Unknown" may appear in the field if the place of publication in unknown.

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ISSN

The International Standard Serial Number is a unique eight-digit number that identifies periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications. If a journal has both a print ISSN and an electronic ISSN, then both display. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X. Example: 1367-4803

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Note

Supplemental or descriptive information supplied by NLM's collaborating partners.

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Number of References

This field contains the number of references listed in the review article.

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Journal Information

Table of Contents: Current Content Connect®

This field contains a link to the Current Contents Connect® Browse Journals page where you can browse the table of contents of journals and books covered by the editions and collections to which you subscribe in Current Contents Connect.

Performance Trends: Essential Science IndicatorsSM

This field contains a link to Essential Science Indicators where you can perform in-depth analysis to find data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. With Essential Science Indicators, you can:

  • Explore science performance statistics and science trends data, based on journal article publication counts and citation data
  • Determine research output and impact in specific fields of research
  • Evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviewers, and peers

Impact Factor: Journal Citation Reports®

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.

Though not a strict mathematical average, the Journal Impact Factor provides a functional approximation of the mean citation rate per citable item.  A Journal Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited one time.  A Journal Impact Factor of 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited two and a half times.  The citing works may be articles published in the same journal.  However, most citing works are from different journals, proceedings, or books indexed in Web of Science Core Collection.

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Comments & Corrections

Comments and Corrections indicate that other subsequent publications contain an erratum, retraction, note, or other follow-up to the research reported in the source document.

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Citation Subset

Citation subsets are subsets of the biomedical literature defined by specialized topics.

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Gene Symbol

This field contains the symbol or abbreviated name of the gene as reported in the literature. Gene symbols appear in records from 1991 to 1995 only. This field was discontinued in 1996.

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Investigator(s)

The name(s) of the NASA-funded principal investigator(s) who conducted the research reported in the source document. They may not be the authors.

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Molecular Sequence Data

This table contains accession numbers of records from databanks of molecular sequence data.

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Record Owner

The owner of the data supplied by a collaborating partner or outside agency. Possible values are:

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

KIE

Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

PIP

Population Information Program, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

POP

former NLM POPLINE database

ARPL

Annual Review of Population Law

CPC

Carolina Population Center

IND

Population Index

CPFH

Center for Population and Family Health Library/Information Program

CLML

Current List of Medical Literature

IM

Index Medicus

SGC

Surgeon General's Catalog

NCT

National Clinical Trials

NRCBL

National Reference Center for Biomedical Literature

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Personal Name Subject

The name of the person who is the subject of the article, biographical note, or obituary.

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Space Flight Mission

The name and/or number of the space flight mission supplied by NASA. This identifier appears in records of articles reporting research conducted in space.

For records containing more than one Space Flight Mission name, see the Space Flight Mission Summary Table at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/space_flight.html that provides the manned/unmanned status and duration of each mission. 

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Other Information

Associated Data

Click the link to view the metadata associated with this record from the Associated Data results page in the Data Citation Index. The metadata includes:

  • Title
  • Authors / Group Authors
  • Source information
  • DOI URL hyperlink
  • Document Type (Repository, Data Study, or Data Set)
  • Software

Note that you can also access and view associated records from the Cited References page.

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Citation Network

Times Cited

The Times Cited count displays the total number of times a published paper was cited by other papers within our database products such as Web of Science Core Collection and BIOSIS Citation Index . The link takes you to a Citing Articles page in one of our citation indexes.

Access to records is limited to your institution's subscription.

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Cited References

The Cited References count displays the number of documents cited by the current record. Click the link to view the list of cited references. From there you can view the full record of each cited reference. (Access to the full records of cited references may be limited to your institution's subscription.)

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To view records that share cited references with the record you are viewing in the current product database, click the View Related Records link.

The assumption behind Related Records searching is that articles that cite the same works have a subject relationship, regardless of whether their titles, abstracts, or keywords contain the same terms. The more cited references two articles share, the closer the subject relationship.

The link displays the total number of related records within one of our citation indexes such as Web of Science Core Collection or BIOSIS Citation Index .

Access to records is limited to your institution's subscription.

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Create Citation Alert

This feature requires a subscription to the Web of Science Core Collection. Contact your System Administrator for more information if this feature is unavailable at your institution.

To create a citation alert for the current record, click the Create Citation Alert button in the right-hand column of the Full Record page.

A citation alert notifies you by e-mail whenever a document you specify has been cited by a new article. Go to Saved Searches & Alerts (located in the My Tools menu) to see the expiration date of the alert. You may renew the alert at any time. We will send you an e-mail approximately two weeks before the alert expires to remind you to renew the alert.

To set up your alert settings, you must be a registered user and you must sign in to Web of Science.

  1. Click the Create Citation Alert button.

  2. Select an e-mail format: Plain Text, HTML, EndNote, or Field Tagged.

  3. Click the Create Citation Alert button.

  4. Click Close to complete the process.

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Use in Web of Science

The Use in Web of Science Counts includes counts from the following citation indexes:

  • Web of Science Core Collection
  • BIOSIS Citation Index
  • Chinese Science Citation Database
  • Data Citation Index
  • Russian Science Citation Index
  • SciELO Citation Index

Access to citing articles is limited by your institution's subscription.

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Output Records

Options to output records are available from the Results, Full Record, and Marked List pages.

  1. Select each record to include in the output.

  2. Select the data to view in the record output.

  3. Select an output option, such as:

  • Print
  • E-mail
  • Save to Endnote online
  • Save to EndNote desktop
  • Save to ResearcherID - I wrote these publications
  • Save to FECYT CVN
  • Save to InCites
  • Save to Other File Formats
  • Save to RefWorks

See also Output Records

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Add to Marked List

Add records to your Marked List where you can later print, save, e-mail, order, or export from the Marked List page.

  1. Click the Marked List button that appears over the title of the record to add the current record to your Marked Records list.

  2. Check to make sure that a check mark icon replaces the plus sign. The number to the right of the check mark indicates the number of records that you have added to your Marked List during the current session.

  3. Click the Marked List button that appears in the menu bar at the top of the page to go to the Marked Lists page.

See also Marking Records

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Save to ResearcherID - I Wrote These Publications

This feature allows you (or an authorized administrator) to add your published works to your publication list in ResearcherID. Use this feature if you see records that you wish to claim as your works.

  1. Select the record(s) that you want to include in your publication list in ResearcherID.

  2. Select  Save to ResearcherID - I Wrote These Publications to open a dialog box that displays a message asking you to certify that you are the author (or a designated proxy) of the selected document(s).

  3. One of the following will occur:

  • If you are currently signed in, the system takes you to a processing overlay and adds the selected record(s) to your publication list.

  • If you are not signed in, click the Sign in to ResearcherID link. Enter your credentials, and then press Continue. The system sends you to a processing overlay and adds the selected record(s) to your publication list.

  • If you are not a registered member of ResearcherID, click the Register with ResearcherID link. Enter a valid e-mail address and then press Continue to complete the process.

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Designating Administrator Access

An administrator is an individual with a ResearcherID account who is associated with an organization or institution. The designated person can perform administrative activities within ResearcherID and utilize the ResearcherID upload web service. An administrator may be granted proxy access to the ResearcherID accounts of other researchers at your institution in order to manage and update their accounts.

For information on how to become an administrator for ResearcherID, refer to the FAQ How Do I get Access to Researcher ID Upload.

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One-Click Search on Names

A one-click search on the name of a linked author, editor, or group author will retrieve all records by that person (within the selected timespan) that exists in the product database. Use this feature to narrow your search to records published by the selected person.

The new set of results is automatically added to the Search History table.

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One-click Search on Terms

A one-click search of a linked term will retrieve all records that contain that term (within the selected timespan). Use this feature to narrow your search to records that contain a specific term.

The new set of results is automatically added to the Search History table.

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EN Icon

A red EN icon indicates the record has been saved to your EndNote online library. Click the icon to go to your library.

This icon only appears if you have signed in and if the record is already in your EndNote library.

See also EndNote

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NCBI

This button opens a new Web page that contains a table with NCBI resource names that link to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). This option is only available for records for which a PubMedID exists.

Visit the NCBI Web site to look for more information on a genome or nucleotide. Explore human genome resources or bring up a Map Viewer to browse the human genome sequence.