---
id: "pmcid"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science", "publishing", "medical"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/pmcid"
---

# PubMed Central ID (PMCID) (`pmcid`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of a full-text article in PubMed Central, the free archive of the US National Library of Medicine. It is written with the prefix PMC, which the Wikidata form leaves out; this format accepts both.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science), Publishing and print (publishing), Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:PMC)?[1-9]\d{0,7}$
```

## Examples

- `1201091`
- `3682911`

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `pmc`
- wikidata: `P932`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central>
- doc: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P932>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/pmcid.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/pmcid.yaml>