Is PubMed a predatory journal
PubMed, MEDLINE and PubMed Central are all funded by the National Library of Medicine but are different databases. PubMed has been reported to include some articles published in predatory journals.
Why is PubMed trusted
PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.
Is PubMed considered peer-reviewed
Most of the journals in Medline/PubMed are peer-reviewed. Generally speaking, if you find a journal citation in Medline/PubMed you should be just fine.
Is Google Scholar or PubMed better
Google Scholar retrieved twice as many relevant articles as PubMed within the first 40 records (average recall: 21.9% vs 10.9%; Table 3). Precision was similar in the two databases. When we considered both metrics together, Google Scholar demonstrated better recall and similar precision in 77% of searches.
What is the disadvantage of PubMed
Limitations of PubMed
PubMed does not allow a detailed citation analysis (such as those available on the Web of Science). PubMed does not enable one to determine author metrics such as h index (which databases such as Scopus or Web of Science or search engines like Google Scholar provide).
Is PubMed an academic source
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 35 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
Is PubMed and NCBI the same thing
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Why use PubMed over Google
Unlike Google Scholar, PubMed provides indexed content that is directly relevant to physicians, including clinical controlled vocabulary (MeSH [medical subject headings]), search limits (such as limiting articles by age or study type), and access to discipline-specific and methods search filters [24,41-43].
Why use PubMed over Google Scholar
In Google and Google Scholar, we don't know exactly what material is included, compared to PubMed where we know precisely which journals are included. Because of that you need to evaluate the sources even more thoroughly.
Is PubMed a government source
Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
