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Analysing publications and funding with the Europe PMC REST API

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Europe PMC is a database of life science publications and preprints. Articles in Europe PMC are enriched with additional resources, such as author, funding and affiliation information, citations and links to data, peer reviews and more.

In this webinar, we will explain how to programmatically access publications and related information using the Europe PMC Articles RESTful API. Michael Parkin, Data Scientist at Europe PMC, will demonstrate how to access the API using the browser and provide some scripting examples in Python/R. He will outline different API methods, rules for filtering and pagination, as well as output formats. Following on, Antonio Campello, Senior Data Scientist at the Wellcome Trust, will explain how Wellcome uses Europe PMC APIs to gain insights into the outputs of the research they fund. He will discuss several use cases, including charting Wellcome’s research portfolio, developing novel technologies to link grants to academic publications, and tracking which grants have been influential to the COVID-19 literature.

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Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

  • Access the Europe PMC API
  • Describe the structure of the Europe PMC API
  • Identify suitable API endpoints to extract data types of interest
  • Make literature searches programmatically
  • Interpret the RESTful webservice output
  • Know where to find help and documentation

Speakers

  • Michael Parkin,The European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute's (EMBL-EBI).
  • Antonio Campello
    Wellcome Trust

Resource details

Contributed by: Pathology Portal
Authored by: Michael Parkin, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute's (EMBL-EBI).
Antonio Campello, Wellcome Trust
Licence: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences
First contributed: 09 December 2022
Audience access level: Full user

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