ecitmatch1
Look up a citation's pubmed id (deprecated)
Usage
ecitmatch (edirect
-citmatch)
[-help]
[-journal
title]
[-year
year]
[-volume
N]
[-page
N]
[-author
name]
Overview
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
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-help -
Print a summary of available options.
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-journal title -
Match only articles whose journal has the given title (which may be specified as a standard abbreviation).
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-year year -
Match only articles published in the given year.
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-volume N -
Match only articles with the given volume number.
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-page N -
Match only articles starting on the given page number.
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-author name -
Match only articles with the given author name (may be partial; may not be repeated).
Releases
3 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.