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Europe PMC REST API boundary

Official documentation for Europe PMC search formats, result types and sorting. This document-only review does not verify authentication, paging limits, article content or reuse rights.

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  1. The search module queries documented search fields; production and test fields endpoints are https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/fields and https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/test/rest/fields. informative
  2. The default result type lite returns key metadata; idlist returns IDs and sources, while core returns full metadata including abstracts, full-text links and MeSH terms. informative
  3. Responses support XML or JSON; search also supports DC (Dublin Core in RDF/XML). Unspecified format defaults to XML, and a DC response always uses core result type. informative
  4. Search defaults to relevance order. The sort parameter accepts single-valued fields with asc or desc; query arguments sort_date:y and sort_cited:y alternatively request newest-first or most-cited-first results. informative