NAME
ecitmatch - look up a citation's PubMed ID (DEPRECATED)
SYNOPSIS
ecitmatch (edirect -citmatch) [-help] [-journal title] [-year year] [-volume N] [-page N] [-author name]
DESCRIPTION
Note: ecitmatch will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct.
ecitmatch prints (to standard output) the numeric PubMed identifier for a specified article. If there were multiple matches, it substitutes a parenthesized expression of the form (n citations). If there were no matches, it prints nothing at all.
OPTIONS
- -help
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Print a summary of available options.
- -journal title
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Match only articles whose journal has the given title (which may be specified as a standard abbreviation).
- -year year
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Match only articles published in the given year.
- -volume N
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Match only articles with the given volume number.
- -page N
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Match only articles starting on the given page number.
- -author name
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Match only articles with the given author name (may be partial; may not be repeated).