Does PubMed include articles written in languages other than English?
Answer
How to determine if a PubMed journal title is written in a foreign language.
- If the title of an article is enclosed in square brackets [ ] in PubMed, it indicates that the article is in a foreign language.
- In most instances, the PubMed citation indicates the language in which the article is available.
- Please view the link for additional information:https://support.nlm.nih.gov/knowledgebase/article/KA-04936/en-us
- You could also search for articles published in English and have a non-English abstract in PubMed.
- This usually indicates the article is both in English and another language: eng[la] AND hasnonenglishabstract
​See also: Does PMC include articles written in languages other than English?
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