MeSH 2023 Publication Types

Publication Types (Publication Characteristics) are Descriptors that indicate what an indexed item is, (i.e., its genre, rather than what it is about - for example, Historical Article). They may include Publication Components, such as Charts; Publication Formats, such as Editorial; and Study Characteristics, such as Clinical Trial.

They function as metadata, rather than being about the content. These records are searchable in PubMed as Publication Type PT, and the terms in MEDLINE records are labeled as "PT" or <PublicationType> rather than "MH" or <MeSHHeading>. They are listed in category V of the MeSH Tree Structures.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"datadiscovery-nlm-nih-gov/mesh-2023-publication-types-vwzh-6q7y\".\"mesh_2023_publication_types\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.