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Europe PMC

Scholarly No key

AuthenticationNo key
Rate limit10 requests per second; include your email in requests for better service on heavy use.

Documentation: europepmc.org ยท Checked Sep 13, 2026

About

Europe PMC is a free archive of biomedical and life-science research, run by the European Bioinformatics Institute. Its API lets you search tens of millions of papers by keyword, get abstracts, citation counts, references, and open-access full text. No key is needed, and it also covers grants and text-mined biology annotations.

Details

No key needed. You can call it right away.

Auth: No key

Rate limit: 10 requests per second; include your email in requests for better service on heavy use.

Verified: 2026-09-13

Best for: personal developer

Setup

  1. Paste the example URL into your browser to see search results instantly, no signup needed.
  2. Change the query text to any topic, author, or journal you want.
  3. Set resultType=core for rich metadata or use the fullTextXML endpoint for open-access text.
  4. Keep requests at or under 10 per second.