API

pmc-ref is built on an API that is also available as part of this project.

A limited number of routes are available but there is scope for more - particularly to make use of available citation* and journal data.

###Current routes###

• /api/v1/articles/doi/
• /api/v1/journals/title/

###What you get from them###

/api/v1/articles/doi/ accepts a doi and returns all the data for that doi

Example: https://pmc-ref.herokuapp.com/api/v1/articles/doi/10.1038%2Fnature10158

To return just the references that are free to access append ?references=free

Example: https://pmc-ref.herokuapp.com/api/v1/articles/doi/10.1038%2Fnature10158?references=free

/api/v1/journals/title/ accepts a journal title and returns the articles published in that journal.

Example: https://pmc-ref.herokuapp.com/api/v1/journals/title/Nature

Journal titles are stored using their ISO abbreviation. A list of journals and their ISO abbreviations is hosted here by ncbi.nih.gov in various formats.

###Suggestions###

I'd love to here what else would be useful so please feel free to make a suggestion of open an issue.

*the data was collected around October 2014 and has not been updated since - instructions how to use the pipeline to collect more data will follow soon.