Limiting PubMed to Nursing JournalsJournal categories & more subsets
Select journal categories can be added to the sidebar using the Additional Filters button:
Dental journals
MEDLINE
Nursing journals
The Journal/Citation subsets restrict retrieval to specialized journals or articles on specialized topics in other journals. The table below lists the journal subsets, along with the code used for searching. Some subsets are closed and are no longer being assigned to current data.
To search for a Journal/Citation subset, enter in the search box: jsubset?, where ? represents the subset code. The Journal/Citation subset does not require a search tag.
Subset Code Journal/Citation Subset
AIM Abridged Index Medicus is a list created in 1970 of approximately 120 core clinical English language journals that corresponds to "Core clinical journals" journal category selection in filters.
D Dentistry journals
E Citations from bioethics journals or selected bioethics citations from other journals
H Health administration journals, non-Index Medicus
IM Index Medicus journals
K Consumer health journals
N Nursing journals
Q History of medicine journals and selected citations from other journals
QIS Citations from non-Index Medicus journals in the field of history of medicine
S Citations from space life sciences journals and selected space life sciences citations from other journals
T Health technology assessment journals, non-Index Medicus
X AIDS/HIV journals (selected citations from other journals 1980-2000)
PubMed Central Subset
To restrict retrieval to citations that have a free full-text article available in PubMed Central (PMC), search pubmed pmc[sb].
Use the PMID/PMCID/NIHMSID Converter to convert IDs for publications referenced in PubMed and PMC. To retrieve citations that include an NIHMS ID use the query, hasnihmsid.
Citation Status Subsets
The citation status indicates the internal processing stage of an article in the PubMed database (see PubMed Citation Status Subsets).
To search for a particular citation status, enter one of the search terms below followed by the [sb] search tag:
publisher
inprocess
medline
pubmednotmedline
To search for the total number of PubMed citations, enter all[sb] in the search box.
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