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PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). This guide is meant to help you use PMC to find and read articles of interest to you. Answers to many common questions about PMC are available in the PMC FAQ .

Tip: If you are a researcher seeking to submit an author manuscript to PMC, visit the NIHMS . (For more information on submissions to PMC, see For Authors .)

Article Quick Guide

Use this section to help navigate PMC's article display.

If you want to

Search for full text articles in PMC: The search bar supports search across the articles in the PMC archive. To search other NCBI databases, use the search bar on the NCBI homepage or on PMC search results pages.

View the article in other formats:  See the “Other Formats” section at the top of the right-hand column to access the article as a PDF.

View the corresponding PubMed record:  Click on the PMID link.

Get a formatted citation of the article: Click on the blue “Cite” button in the “Actions” section in the right-hand column to get formatted citation information .

Save an article to a My NCBI collection: Click the blue “Collections” button in the “Actions” section in the right-hand column to add an article to any of your collections in My NCBI. When an article has been added to a collection, the icon in the button turns white. You can also use this button to create a new collection before adding an article to it.

Share an article: Click on a social media button or the link button in the “Share” section in the right-hand column.

View articles similar to the article you are viewing: Click “Similar articles” to open the section and see a list of articles from PubMed that are similar to the one you are reading . Click an article title to view the record in PubMed, or click the "See all in PubMed" link to see the full list of similar articles available from PubMed.

View articles that cite the article you are viewing: Click “Cited by other articles” to open the section and see a list of articles from PubMed that cite the one you are reading . Click an article title to view the record in PubMed, or click the “See all in PubMed” link to see a full list of articles available from PubMed.

Access links to related content in other NCBI databases: Click “Links to NCBI Databases” to open the section and see available links to related records in other NCBI databases. Click on the name of the NCBI database to navigate to that resource.

Find data related to the article: The Associated Data box will display in articles that include data citations, data availability statements, or supplementary materials.  You can also find links to applicable NCBI databases in the "Links to NCBI Databases" section in the right-hand column or in the "Related information" section of an article’s corresponding PubMed record.

View references within the article:  Hover over or click on any linked reference in the article to view the complete reference list entry.

View your recent activity on the PMC site: You can find details on previous searches from your session by clicking on “ Advanced search ” next to the search bar. You may also visit your  My NCBI dashboard  to view recent activity.

Access similar features on mobile and smaller screens: Click the “three dot” menu in the upper left-hand corner of an article page to see a list of these features on mobile devices and when you use a narrow browser window on a desktop.

Note: Some functionality from the classic PMC article view has been consolidated or retired based on its usage (e.g. epub format). If you are unable to find a feature or information you previously used in PMC, please let us know what you are looking for through the Feedback button to the right.

Visit the PMC Journal List to browse a list of journals that archive some or all of their articles in PMC. Journals added to PMC in the last 60 days can be found by clicking on the New tab.

You can also discover PMC's unique historical collections, open access and text mining collections, funder collections, and more on the PMC Collections page.

To search for full-text articles in PMC, type the term or concept you are looking for into the search box at the top of any PMC page and click the search button or hit enter. Suggestions will display as you type your search terms. This feature is based on PubMed query log analysis described in " Finding Query Suggestions for PubMed ."

For many searches, it is not necessary to use special tags or syntax, though PMC does support more structured searching and filters to refine your results and help you find the information you are seeking. The PMC Single Citation Matcher tool is also available to find PMC articles by specific citation information.

Tip: Searches are not case sensitive.

Learn to search by:

Author | Journal | Collection | Funder | License | Publication Date | PMC Live Date | Article Property

Other search topics:

Phrase Searching | Truncating Search Terms | Combining Search Terms with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)

In the Search box, enter the author's full name or their last name followed by initials, without punctuation. If you only know the author's last name, use the author search field tag [au] as shown in an example below.

Author names are automatically truncated to account for varying initials and designations such as Jr. To turn off the truncation, use double quotes around the author's name with the author search field tag [au] as shown in an example below.

In the Search box, enter the journal title, the NLM journal title abbreviation, or the ISSN , the 8-digit standardized international code used to identify journals.

• If a journal title or abbreviation includes a special character (e.g., parentheses, brackets, ampersands), enter the title or abbreviation without the special characters.
• For complete retrieval of indexed items, we recommend a search using the full journal title or the journal title abbreviation as older articles may not have an ISSN.
• If you are searching using the full journal title or title abbreviation in the Search box along with additional search terms, it is helpful to use quotation marks around a journal's title, e.g., obesity "preventing chronic disease"[journal] .

By Collection

Explore the contents of collections in PMC by entering the appropriate preset PMC search filter(s):

See PMC Collections for additional information.

Use or append the preset search filters shown in the Search Query column below to find articles supported by funding organizations that have formally partnered with NLM to use PMC as a repository for their funded research.

See PMC and Research Funder Policies for additional information.

Limit your search results to articles in the PMC Open Access Subset with specific Creative Commons (CC) licenses by appending the preset search filters shown in the Search Query column below. For descriptions of these licenses, please see the Creative Commons site, About the Licenses . Please note that not all articles in the Open Access Subset have a CC license.

These filters are based on license information, which is provided to PMC by publishers and other content providers. Please note that, in some cases, there are discrepancies between these machine-readable identifiers and the actual text of the license statements. In 2013, PMC instituted new rules to help ensure consistency of the tagging of the licenses , which apply to all content received since then.

By Publication Date

Enter dates into the Search box using the format YYYY/MM/DD[ pubdate ], or enter a date range using a colon (:) between each date followed by a date search field tag.

By PMC Live Date

Enter dates into the Search box using the format YYYY/MM/DD[ pmclivedate ], or enter a date range using a colon (:) between each date followed by a date search field tag.

If you are looking for the PMC Live Date for a specific record,

• See the corresponding PubMed record for the PMC release date of embargoed articles.
• See the "available in PMC" date included in the citation on the PMC record.
• See Version 2.0 of eSummary to get the PMC Live Date for any article in the database e.g., https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=pmc&version=2.0&id=14900 .

Deposit date data are not available.

By Article Property

Search or append a search with any of the following queries to find articles with these specific properties in PMC:

Phrase Searching

PMC does not perform adjacency searching. However, many phrases are recognized by the MeSH Translation Table used in PMC's automatic term mapping feature. For example, if you enter “influenza in birds”, PMC recognizes this phrase as a MeSH concept. If a phrase is not recognized, you can instruct PMC to bypass automatic term mapping and search for a specific phrase using the following formats:

• Enclose the phrase in double quotes: "kidney allograft" . When you enter your search terms as a phrase (using quotation marks), PMC will not perform automatic term mapping, which includes expansion of MeSH terms .
• Use a search tag : kidney allograft[tw]
• Use a hyphen instead of a space: " first-line "

Phrases may appear in a PMC article but not be in the phrases index. To browse indexed phrases, use the Show Index feature included in the Advanced Search Builder: select a search field, enter the beginning of a phrase, and then click Show Index.

Truncating Search Terms

To search for all terms that begin with a word, enter the word followed by an asterisk (*). For example, flavor* finds terms that begin with the root term flavor, such as flavored, flavorful, flavoring, etc.

PMC searches for the first 600 variations of a truncated term. If a truncated term (e.g., "tox*") produces more than 600 variations, PMC displays a warning message to lengthen the root word to search for all endings.

Truncation turns off automatic term mapping and the automatic expansion of a MeSH term .

Truncating a word in a multi-word query may result in an unexpected phrase search. For example, the search fetus infection* maternal will treat fetus infection* as a phrase.

Truncation stops at the end of a term, that is, it does not process beyond a space.

Combining Search Terms with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)

Enter Boolean operators in uppercase characters to combine or exclude search terms:

• AND retrieves results that include all of the search terms.
• OR retrieves results that include at least one of the search terms.
• NOT excludes the retrieval of terms from your search.

Use parentheses to group terms as desired.

Combine Tagged Search Terms Using Boolean Operators Boolean operators must be used when combining tagged search terms .

"smith j"[au] AND 2001:2021[pubdate]

Stop Automatic Term Mapping Using Boolean Operators In a multi-word search entered without Boolean operators, PMC will use automatic term mapping to identify concepts.

air bladder fistula Automatic term mapping will be used, so the search results will include articles that have the term "air bladder" and the word "fistula" , because "air bladder" is a term recognized by PMC's automatic term mapping.

air AND bladder AND fistula Automatic term mapping will not be used. The search results will include articles with the separate words "air", "bladder", and "fistula" found in them.

View Search Results

PMC search results are displayed by default in order of relevance with 20 results per page. The default sort order for search results is based on an algorithm that analyzes the full text of every PMC article that contains any of your search terms. For a given search query, "weight" is calculated for each article depending on how many search terms are found, which fields they are found in, and the size of the article. Although recently-published articles are given more weight, this is not a major sorting factor.

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Understand the Search Results Page

From the search results page you can

• Click on the record title to access an article
• Access the article directly in one of two different formats ( HTML Article View or PDF - More about formats can be found at View an Article ).
• Limit results by article attribute, publication date, or funder using the sidebar filters. Additional filter help can be found here: article property , publication date , funder , license , collection .
• Expand your results to include articles currently under embargo in PMC alongside the publicly accessible results, by selecting the Include embargoed articles sidebar filter.
• Find related data in other NCBI datasets.
• Send your results to a file, email them, or save them using the Clipboard and Collections tools.
• Add custom filters.

Each action above is highlighted in the screenshot below with the corresponding number.

Customize Your Search Results Display

PMC search results initially display in a summary format with 20 results per page sorted by relevance.

Use Display Settings to:

• Change the result format
• Change the number of items per page
• Change the sort order for your search results

You may change the sort order for search results using the Display Settings pull-down menu to select a different sort by setting:

• Default Order
• Publication Date
• PMC Live Date

View and Edit Search Details

The PMC search program may modify your search terms to enhance your retrieval. Sometimes these changes may not match what you have in mind. For example, if you search for cystic fibrosis by its abbreviation cf, the cf search retrieves some articles that do not discuss cystic fibrosis. To see why PMC retrieved these articles, review the Search Details box to see how PMC translated cf to search for articles about cerebrospinal fluid or cf. (For additional information, see automatic term mapping and search rules .)

• Edit the search in the Search Details box by adding or deleting terms and then click the Search button just below the box.
• Click on "See more…" to see more detailed information about the query used to run the search as shown in the screenshot below.

From the Search Details window you can:

• Edit the search in the Query Translation box by adding or deleting terms and then click the Search button.
• Get a URL to bookmark this search for future use by clicking the URL button. Searches created by combining History search numbers should not be saved using the URL feature, because the search numbers are not persistent.
• Get a list of any Stopwords that were ignored. (A row not pictured in the screenshot below labeled Stopword(s) ignored will display if stopwords are found.)
• View the total number of results for the search by viewing the Result link; click on it to run the search.
• Learn how each term was translated using PMC's search rules and syntax by viewing the Translations area.
• View the search terms exactly as you entered them in the query box in the User query area and see whether there were any syntax errors.
• Replace general search terms with more specific ones (e.g., search for low back pain instead of back pain).
• Add additional terms to your search.
• Use the sidebar filters to restrict your results by article attributes, text availability, publication dates, research funder, and search fields. (Note: Subsequent searches will be filtered until the selected filters are cleared.)
• Click Manage Filters in the right-hand Filter your results portlet to customize your My NCBI filter selections . (For details on using Filters in My NCBI, see Working with Filters in My NCBI Help ). Details on setting up your own filters can be found in the Creating Custom Filters section.)

Save and Email Results and Searches

PMC offers a wide variety of methods to save search results. Use the Send to dropdown in order to:

• Save results to a file (may take several minutes for a large retrieval). The default for the Send to File feature is to save the entire retrieval unless you select specific results.
• Send results by e-mail. You may email up to 200 items at a time to a single email address. Your PMC results will be sent from the NCBI automatic mail server, sent by Entrez [[email protected]]. Do not reply to this message. This is not a functioning customer service email address.
• Save results to a RSS feed. PMC does not currently support RSS feeds directly through the PMC search page. However, in PubMed you can create an RSS feed by using a search that restricts retrieval to the PMC subset if you include AND pubmed pmc[sb] in the query. Documentation is also available for creating a permalink in PubMed . Note: Some PMC article types are not accepted by PubMed and so will not be included in the RSS feed.
• Save results temporarily in your Clipboard. The Clipboard gives you a place to collect selected results from one or several searches. The Clipboard will be lost after 8 hours of inactivity on PMC or on any of the other Entrez databases.
• Save results permanently in My NCBI Collection s (you must be signed in to My NCBI to use this feature). There is no limit to the number of collections you may store in My NCBI. In addition, collections can be made public to share with others. (See My NCBI Help Collections for more information.)
• The maximum number of items that can be placed in the Clipboard is 500. If you select Clipboard from the Send to menu without selecting results using the check box, PMC will add all (up to 500 results) of your search results to the Clipboard.
• Adding the same article to the Clipboard multiple times will not result in duplicate entries in the Clipboard.
• PMC uses cookies to add your selections to the Clipboard. For you to use this feature, your Web browser must be set to accept cookies.
• Results in the Clipboard are represented by the search number #0, which may be used in Boolean search statements. For example, to limit the results you have collected in the Clipboard to author manuscripts, use the following search: “#0 AND author manuscript [filter]”. This does not affect or replace the Clipboard contents.

Use Advanced Search

Tools included on the Advanced Search page help users to: search for terms in a specific field, combine searches and build large, complex search strings, and compare the number of results for different queries. A link to the Advanced Search page is available by the search box.

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Search by a Specific Field

• From the "All Fields" drop-down menu, select the field you would like to search.
• Add terms from the builder to the query box to construct your search. The default Boolean operator is AND; if desired, choose OR or NOT from the pull-down menu.
• Once you have finished adding terms to the query box, click Search (or Add to History) to run the search.

You may also search a specific field -- and bypass automatic term mapping -- by adding a search tag to a term (see: Search field descriptions and tags ). The search tag must be enclosed in square brackets.

Browse the Index of Terms

The Advanced Search Builder includes the Show Index List feature, which provides an alphabetical display of terms appearing in selected PMC search fields. You can browse by all fields or within specific fields such as MeSH Terms. The Show Index list will only display for fields that are compatible with this feature.

• Enter a term in the search box, then click Show Index .
• Scroll until you find a term you want to include in your search, and then highlight it to add it to the search box. The index displays an alphabetical list of search terms and the approximate number of citations for each term (the actual citation count is returned when the search is executed).
• Add terms from the builder to the query box to construct your search. The builder will automatically OR (and add parentheses) for multiple terms selected from the index.

View Your Search History

Your past searches appear on the Advanced Search page under History . This feature requires your web browser to accept cookies.

Descriptions of each column in the History table appear below:

Search. Searches are numbered in chronological order. Search numbers may be used in place of the search string itself when combining queries (e.g., #1 OR #2).

A repeated query will move to the top of History but will retain its original numbering.

Tip: Click the "Search number" to display additional options, including Boolean operators OR or NOT. Other menu options include:

• Delete from history
• Show search results
• Show search details
• Save in My NCBI

Add to Builder. Adding queries from History places the search string into the Query box to be used in the next search.

Query. This column shows previous search strings you entered.

Items Found. This is the total number of citations retrieved for that query. Click the number to run the search and see the results in PMC.

Tip: Use the "Add to history" link in Advanced search to display the items found before displaying the search results. To display the results, click the history "Items found" link.

Time. Timestamp of when the search was conducted.

To generate a CSV file of current History items, click "Download history". Please note, Microsoft Excel is typically unable to display or print more than a maximum of 1024 characters in a cell; therefore, you may want to open the CSV file with a text editor to display your complete searches.

Click "Clear History" to remove all queries from History; otherwise, History expires after 8 hours of inactivity.

View an Article

In the default article display on desktop devices you can

• read the article,
• find article identifiers (e.g., PMCID, NIHMSID, PMID)
• view other available formats (PDF),
• get formatted citation data , and
• share on social media.

You can also click on an author's name to search for other publications by that author.

Use the "Similar Articles in PubMed" link in the sidebar to view related articles in PubMed .

When applicable, the front matter of an article may also contain links to related articles such as:

• Corrections
• Retractions (retracted articles will also be denoted by a retraction banner)

For information about a journal or collection, click on the journal banner at the top of the page to visit the journal or publisher website.

See the Article Quick Guide section for help finding some of the functions available in the PMC article view.

PubReader is an alternative web presentation to the article view that offers a mobile device-friendly way to look at articles in PMC. The view is available for any article that is available in full-text in PMC. You can get to the PubReader view by appending "?report=reader" to any PMC article URL (e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9825438/?report=reader ).

See the 2023 update about PubReader

Summary/Page Browse display

Many older (pre-2000) articles in PMC are viewable in a Summary/Page Browse format (for example, PMC2483210 ). The full text of these articles is still available in PDF format (as a scanned copy of the original print version). An increasing number of Summary/Page Browse articles include a Selected References section offering links to citation records in PubMed or to other PMC articles.

Cite an Article

The Citation Exporter makes it easy to retrieve either styled citations that you can copy/paste into your manuscripts or download into a format compatible with your bibliographic reference manager software. You can access the citation by

• clicking the "Cite" button on an article record
• Selecting "Citation" from the Alt dropdown menu in PubReader

When, clicked, this opens a pop-up window that you can use to copy and paste citations formatted in AMA (American Medical Association), MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), and NLM (National Library of Medicine). In addition, the box has links at the bottom that can be used to download the citation information in NBIB format.

Search Field Descriptions and Tags

Search field descriptions and their corresponding tags are listed in the table below. Please note, however, that the following search tags apply only to articles that have been indexed by PubMed/MEDLINE: MeSH Major Topic [MAJR], MeSH Subheadings [SH], MeSH Terms [MH], Grant Number [GR], EC/RN Number [RN], and Supplementary Concept [NM]. Use of these tags will restrict the retrieval of search results to the MEDLINE-indexed subset of PMC.

Tip: See an alphabetical list of all the search terms for a particular search field by the index in Advanced Search Builder .

Abstract [ab]

Includes all words and numbers in the abstract of an article. English language abstracts are taken directly from the published article. If an article does not have a published abstract, PMC does not create one.

Accession [accn]

Includes accession numbers from the GenBank sequence database that are cited in PMC articles.

Acknowledgements [ack]

Includes all words in the acknowledgement section of an article (e.g., “National Institutes of Health[ack]”).

Affiliation [ad]

Includes the institutional affiliation and address (including email address, when available) of the authors of the article as it appears in the journal. This field can be used to search for work done at specific institutions (e.g., "mayo[ad] AND clinic[ad]").

All Fields [all] or [All Fields]

Includes all searchable PMC fields. However, only terms where there is no match found in one of the Translation tables or Indexes via the automatic term mapping process will be searched in All Fields.

Author [au]

To search for an author, enter the last name followed by a space and up to the first two initials followed by a space and, if applicable, a suffix abbreviation. Do not include a period or comma after the last name (e.g., "fauci as or o'brien jc jr"). Initials and suffixes may be omitted when searching.

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For a MeSH/Subheading combination, PMC always includes the more specific terms arranged beneath broader terms for the MeSH term and also includes the more specific terms arranged beneath broader subheadings. The broader subheading, or one of its subheadings, will be directly attached to the MeSH term or one of its subheadings. For example, "hypertension/therapy" also retrieves "hypertension/diet therapy"; "hypertension/drug therapy"; "hypertension, malignant/therapy"; "hypertension, malignant/drug therapy", and so on, as well as "hypertension/therapy".

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to broadly reshape medicine, potentially improving the experiences of both clinicians and patients. We discuss key findings from a 2-year weekly effort to track and share key developments in medical AI. We cover prospective studies and advances in medical image analysis, which have reduced the gap between research and deployment. We also address several promising avenues for novel medical AI research, including non-image data sources, unconventional problem formulations and human–AI collaboration. Finally, we consider serious technical and ethical challenges in issues spanning from data scarcity to racial bias. As these challenges are addressed, AI’s potential may be realized, making healthcare more accurate, efficient and accessible for patients worldwide.

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Medical research is the bedrock upon which advancements in healthcare and medicine are built. It is through rigorous research that groundbreaking discoveries are made, innovative treatments are developed, and deeper insights into complex diseases are gathered. Medical research encompasses a vast domain, from clinical trials and biomedical studies to epidemiological analyses and molecular investigations. The knowledge and methodologies applied in this domain have the potential to shape healthcare policies, inform medical practices, and, most crucially, save and enhance lives. With the ever-accelerating pace of medical advancements and the increasing complexities of global health challenges, there’s a growing need for skilled professionals who can navigate the multifaceted world of medical research.

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Free course trial – understanding medical research by yale university (coursera).

Developed by F. Perry Wilson, this is an excellent course on medical research that will provide you with the tools and skills that you need to interpret medical studies critically and determine the difference between good and bad science . During the course, you will cover study designs, research methods, and statistical interpretation, as well as you will learn about the dark side of the medical research while covering fraud, biases, and common misinterpretations of data. Moreover, the course provides you with multiple video lectures and downloadable resources to improve your overall learning process. Also, after successful completion, you will get a certificate of completion signed by Yale University faculty.

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Free Course Trial – Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics by University of Cape Town (Coursera)

Whether you are a clinical practitioner who reads research articles to stay up-to-date with developments or a medical student who wants to learn how to approach your own research paper, then this course is the best choice for you. Taking up this course with full attention will provide you the confidence that you need to understand statistical analysis, published literature, and conducting your own research . The course is developed by Juan H Klopper, who is a professional instructor at the University of Cape Town. During the course, he will assist you personally via live video sessions of emails to provide you an improved understanding of the course material.

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Free Course Trial – Data Management for Clinical Research by Vanderbilt University (Coursera)

This introductory course will familiarize you with the critical concepts and practical methods of supporting planning, collecting, storing, and disseminating data in clinical research . Taking this course will help you learn and understand why implementing solid data management principles are critical for any scientific domain. The course is developed by professional instructors of Vanderbilt University, who are well-versed with all the concepts of clinical research. They will provide you additional assistance during the course to help you gain a better understanding of the clinical research. Also, after concluding the course, you will earn your certificate of completion that can be shared with employers to showcase your skills.

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Online Medical Research Courses (Harvard University)

Whether you’re just beginning with clinical research or already have hands-on experience in it, this list of courses can help you improve your knowledge in every manner. There are three different courses available on the platform, which are designed by the best instructors of Harvard University, who have been teaching multiple students for years . Completing these courses will acknowledge you about almost everything that you need to understand research papers and write your own research paper. Also, you will get the opportunity to join a student support community, where you can interact with other students and instructors to submit your queries and resolutions.

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Online Clinical Research Certificate Program (Drexel University)

Delivered by industry experts and professional instructors of Drexel University, this online clinical research program is specifically designed for individuals who are seeking clinical research credentials and want to make a successful career in the clinical research field . It is a 15-semester credit program, during which you will cover both business principles and clinical research industry best practices. Also, you will have to complete five graduate-level courses that contain information from the MS in Clinical Research Organization and Management curriculum to earn your professional credential from Drexel University. While learning from the sessions, if you face any problems or queries, then a team of experts will always be available to help you. Check out our take on Best Health Informatics Courses. 

– A professional certification program that will prepare you for the role of clinical research associate, analyst, or clinical research coordinator.

– Learn how to keep up with the changes in clinical research, financial, legal, and regulatory environments while gaining an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of compliance, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical laws.

– Be able to build skills that are relevant to you and can help you navigate the evolving clinical research landscapes successfully.

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Improving Healthcare through Clinical Research by the University of Leeds (FutureLearn)

This is a free online course that can help you find out how medical treatments are developed, tested, and appraised to improve healthcare for all. The course is developed by professional instructors of Leeds University, who are experienced in all aspects of clinical research. During the course, the instructors will take you through various case studies to examine how research contributes to the treatment of major diseases like cancer and dementia . Accredited by Certification Service, it will provide you with a certificate of completion after finishing the course with given assignments.

– A valuable course that focuses on the process of discovery, how it is used to improve healthcare, and the important ethical questions raised by research.

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– Know the importance of ensuring that clinical research is ethical and the fundamental values that are vital to ensure that clinical trials are set up and conducted in an ethically sound manner.

Duration: 4 weeks, 4-5 hours/week

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials by Stanford Online (edX)

Developed by experienced instructors of Stanford University, this course can fulfill the clinical community’s need to improve your skills in the critical evaluation of clinical research papers. Enrolling in this course will help you learn how having essential skills of the appraisal can have a significant impact by improving quality of research projects, clinical practice, and peer-review of manuscripts and grants . Besides, it is included with recorded video lectures, practical assessments, grading quizzes with each session, and downloadable resources to provide you additional knowledge of critical research concepts. After ending this course, you will gain a certificate of completion signed by Stanford University. You may like to check our compilation of Best Medical Terminology Courses. 

– A knowledgeable course that will improve your thinking capability regarding clinical research and creating your own research papers.

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– Learn how to analyze the concepts of randomization and blinding to reduce bias, as well as how to develop strategies to critically appraise randomized clinical trials and determine whether the study results are valid or not.

– Offer opportunities like self-paced learning and practicing critical appraisal of a variety of published studies that evaluate benefit, harm, and prognosis.

Duration: 1 week

Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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List of research journals

Free medical journals for publication

Free medical journals : It is always recommended to publish research articles in free (unpaid) research journals . There are many medical journals that publish without publication fees . However, researchers are not aware of such unpaid medical research journals.

In response, this blog post aims to provide a list of free medical journals that publish with no publication fees.

List of Free medical journals

The following free medical journals publish research in hybrid mode. It means journals provide an option of keeping the research paper open access. However, this status typically requires the payment of a publication fee to the publisher in order to publish an article open access.

1. Supportive Care in Cancer

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 14337339 Impact Factor: 3.603

2. Neurocritical Care

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 15560961 Impact Factor: 3.21

3. BMC Palliative Care

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: Impact Factor: 3.234

4. Drug Safety

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 11791942 Impact Factor: 5.606

5. BMC Infectious Diseases

6. J ournal of Cancer Policy

Publisher: Elsevier

7. Journal of Pediatrics

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 10976833 Impact Factor: 4.406

8. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 18736513 Impact Factor:

9. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 15581519 Impact Factor: –

10. African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Publisher: African Federation for Emergency Medicine ISSN: 22114203 Impact Factor: 1.37

11. Journal of Bone Oncology

Publisher: Elsevier. ISSN: – Impact Factor: 4.072

12. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 15733572 Impact Factor: –

13. SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine

14. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 22107711 Impact Factor: 2.054

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Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 18658652 Impact Factor: 3.845

16. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

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17. Cancer Treatment Reviews

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: Impact Factor: 12.111

18. American Heart Journal

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 10976744 Impact Factor: 4.749

19. Respiratory Investigation

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 22125353 Impact Factor:

20. Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: 15583597. Impact Factor:

21. Advances in Radiation Oncology

Publisher: Elsevier ISSN: Impact Factor: –

22. Medical Oncology

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 1559131X Impact Factor: 3.064

23. Journal of Community Health

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 15733610 Impact Factor: 1.833

24. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 18693482 Impact Factor:

25. Archives of Osteoporosis

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 18623514 Impact Factor: 2.617

26. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Publisher: Springer Nature ISSN: 16197089 Impact Factor: –

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The possibility of using furfurol for the production of ash-free high-strength active carbons with spheroidal particles as adsorbents and catalyst supports is substantiated. A single-stage process that incorporates the resinification of furfurol, the molding of a spherical product, and its hardening while allowing the process cycle time and the cost of equipment to be reduced is developed. Derivatographic, X-ray diffraction, mercury porometric, and adsorption studies of the carbonization of the molded spherical product are performed to characterize the development of the primary and porous structures of carbon residues. Ash-free active carbons with spheroidal particles, a full volume of sorbing micro- and mesopores (up to 1.50 cm 3 /g), and a uniquely high mechanical strength (its abrasion rate is three orders of magnitude lower than that of industrial active carbons) are obtained via the vapor-gas activation of a carbonized product. The obtained active carbons are superior to all known foreign and domestic analogues and are promising for the production of catalysts that operate under severe regimes, i.e., in moving and fluidized beds.

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