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Europe PMC team

 | 16 February 2018

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Why every researcher should care about open citations

Europe PMC team

 | 16 February 2018

 | 5 MINS READ

Why every researcher should care about open citations

What happens when you cite someone’s research? As you write a research publication you include references to the work of your fellow researchers. Once the article is published in a scientific journal the readers may view the reference list to verify cited information or perhaps discover additional studies relevant to their topic. But have you […]

Europe PMC team

 | 12 May 2017

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Preprints and the ASAPBio “Central” Services

Europe PMC team

 | 12 May 2017

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Preprints and the ASAPBio “Central” Services

Jo McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Thomas Lemberger, EMBO; Mark Patterson, eLife; Kristen Rattan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation; Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputer Centre. The use of preprints in the life sciences offers tantalising opportunities to change the way research results are communicated and reused, and the work of ASAPbio has been key in engaging the scientific community to promote […]

Europe PMC team

 | 28 February 2017

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Sort it out: Sorting your search results with Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 28 February 2017

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Sort it out: Sorting your search results with Europe PMC

Imagine you are exploring a new topic. You start by searching for relevant papers in the field. You type your query, click the search button, and end up with thousands of scientific articles, waiting to be read. How do you identify which papers to focus on? In Europe PMC, search results can be sorted differently […]

Europe PMC team

 | 17 June 2015

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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia

Europe PMC team

 | 17 June 2015

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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia

Europe PMC has a new provider of External Links: links from articles on Europe PMC to related content on 3rd party websites. Our most recent addition provides links from over 300,000 articles to entries in Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia. For example, from the article ‘Spinal subdural abscess following epidural steroid injection’, you can link (via […]

Europe PMC team

 | 13 March 2012

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Citation Sort Order and Navigation

Europe PMC team

 | 13 March 2012

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Citation Sort Order and Navigation

Are you interested in finding highly cited articles? If so then the new features in UKPMC will be of value to you. Search results can now be sorted by the number of times articles have been cited. Each search result is now shown with a count of the number of articles citing that record. If […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 August 2010

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UKPMC provides WoS citation counts

Europe PMC team

 | 20 August 2010

 | 1 MIN READ

UKPMC provides WoS citation counts

UKPMC users can now view counts and link through to Web of Science citation data for articles available via the UKPMC website. The UKPMC citations tab available on both the abstract and full text view of an article, already providing ‘cited by’ and ‘cites the following’ data, has been augmented by a WoS citation count, […]

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