ICite Get Publications
Get citation metrics and research context for PubMed publications using NIH's iCite API. iCite provides evidence-based metrics including citation counts, relative citation ratios (RCR), approximate potential to translate (APT) scores for clinical translation, NIH percentile rankings, and research category flags (human/animal/molecular-cellular). Returns all available citations and the full list of citing PMIDs. Essential for evaluating scientific impact, identifying highly-cited papers, and ass…
Overview
Get citation metrics and research context for PubMed publications using NIH's iCite API. iCite provides evidence-based metrics including citation counts, relative citation ratios (RCR), approximate potential to translate (APT) scores for clinical translation, NIH percentile rankings, and research category flags (human/animal/molecular-cellular). Returns all available citations and the full list of citing PMIDs. Essential for evaluating scientific impact, identifying highly-cited papers, and assessing translational potential of biomedical research. Example: PMID 31510562 has citation_count=6, nih_percentile=29.0.
Status
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- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 105ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"pmids": {
"description": "Comma-separated PubMed IDs to look up (e.g., '24453150,24453148,31510562'). Maximum ~100 PMIDs per request.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"pmids"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default ICite Get Publications call
{
"pmids": ""
}Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_iCite_get_publications
- Tool name
- iCite_get_publications
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse