PubMed Citation Status Tag

All citations in PubMed with the status tag [PubMed] have had the bibliographic data (e.g.: authors, article title, source information, abstract) reviewed for accuracy. The coverage of this status tag has now been expanded from two to three types of citations.

The newest addition is:

• A citation for an article in a journal that is not indexed for MEDLINE. These are typically citations to articles from journals that deposit their full text articles in PubMed Central®, but have not yet been recommended for indexing in MEDLINE

The other two types are:

• A citation for an article in a journal from which NLM regularly indexes articles, but this article is on a topic considered outside the scope of MEDLINE®
• A citation for an article from issues of journals published prior to their selection for MEDLINE indexing and submitted to NLM since late 2003

To search for citations with the [PubMed] citation status tag use: pubmednotmedline [sb]