Statistics or volume of biomedical publications

Question

[davehresearch]

From where can I get a graph representing no. of biomedical publications that are being published each year up to 2015? (especially publications related to mutations, genes and proteins). Or even no. of publications in databases like Pubmed, PMC, PMC Open Central etc?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Using eutils:

seq 1900 2015 | while read Y; do echo -n "$Y " && curl -s "http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&term=${Y}%5BPDAT%5D&retmode=xml&rettype=count" | xmllint --xpath '/eSearchResult/Count/text()' -  && echo ; done

1900 1588
1901 1769
1902 1777
1903 2002
1904 1952
1905 2168
1906 2121
1907 2110
1908 2746
1909 3009
1910 3066
1911 3385
1912 3364
1913 3588
1914 3583
1915 3378
1916 3186
1917 2943
1918 2909
1919 3141
1920 3350
1921 3381
1922 3524
1923 3813
1924 4212
1925 4445
1926 4746
1927 5347
1928 4974
1929 5062
1930 4956
(...)
2000 530402
2001 544562
2002 562550
2003 592053
2004 636997
2005 697493
2006 744102
2007 782679
2008 832285
2009 872449
2010 935899
2011 1011970
2012 1077450
2013 1138201
2014 1185144
2015 919083