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<\/p>\nLet\u2019s take a moment to demystify these commonly used acronyms. They are all unique identifiers for an article (like a barcode), which can be used to easily link to or find an article online. The following article has 3 different identifiers assigned to it.<\/p>\n
Adeli, Seyed-Hasan et al. \u201cSpirituality in medical education and COVID-19.\u201d\u00a0The clinical teacher<\/i> vol. 18,4 (2021): 372-373.<\/p>\n
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A PMID<\/strong> (such as PMID:33465823) is a unique numerical identifier for an article in PubMed. You will notice every article included in PubMed has a PMID under the citation\/abstract. You can search this number in PubMed or in the search box on the IHS Library Homepage<\/a> to go straight to that particular article.<\/p>\n The International DOI Foundation assigns a unique alphanumeric string to content online known as a Digital Object Identifier or DOI<\/strong>. Most publishers give their articles DOIs because it is the best way to provide links to articles that are persistent or permalinks.<\/p>\n When available, you will also see DOIs included with the citation data in PubMed. In order to \u201cresolve\u201d these DOIs, or make them usable links, simply add http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/ before the DOIs. Thus, an article with a DOI of 10.1111\/tct.13331 can be linked by using http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/tct.13331<\/a><\/p>\n Finally, PMCID<\/strong>s are simply unique identifiers for articles that are included in PubMed Central<\/strong> (PMC). PMC8013884. These numbers will be preceded by PMC first.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a moment to demystify these commonly used acronyms. They are all unique identifiers for an article (like a barcode), which can be used to easily link to or find an article online. The following article has 3 different identifiers assigned to it. Adeli, Seyed-Hasan et al. \u201cSpirituality in medical education and COVID-19.\u201d\u00a0The clinical … Continue reading “PMIDs, DOIs, and PMCIDs Oh My!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86,87,38],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-doi","tag-pmid","tag-pubmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}