NLM Unique ID

ID nlm_unique_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Number of a record (journal, book, audiovisual item) in the catalogue of the US National Library of Medicine. PubMed journal records carry it.

Categories: Publishing and print, Medical/pharma identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Bioregistry: nlm
Wikidata: P1055
Quality: 80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^\d{6,19}(A|R|\d)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
7501160	The Journal of the American Medical Association
0050556	Radiochimica Acta

Sources

doc: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1055

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