Publication dates for PMC publications (Q12242)

Lookup tables in plain JSON, mapping PMC publication identifiers to their earliest respective publication dates. The JSON files are archived inpmc-publication-dates-by-identifier.tar.gz. The archive contains files named after the first digit of the PMC publication identifiers they contain. E.g., the filePMC1.jsonwill contain the data for identifiersPMC1234567, etc. Publication dates are given in the formatYYYY[-MM[-DD]], i.e., the earliest date is given with the maximum of information that has been available from the PMC OAI-PMH metadata, at least the publication year, if available also the publication month and day. Reproducibility TheSnakemakeworkflow that has produced this dataset has been archived and is available inpmc-publication-dates-workflow.tar.gz. Running the workflow To reproduce the dataset on a Linux machine, you need a version of thecondapackage manager installed on your system. Run the following: # Extract the archived workflow tar -xf pmc-publication-dates-workflow.tar.gz # Create conda environment from lock file conda env create -n pmc-metadata --file conda-environment.lock.yaml # Activate the environment conda activate pmc-metadata # Optionally, dry-run the workflow snakemake -n # Produce the output files snakemake --keep-storage-local-copies --software-deployment-method conda -c NUMBER OF CORES TO USE Workflow To adapt/change the workflow, clone it fromhttps://github.com/sdruskat/pmc-publication-metadata. The workflow version used to produce this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11350802.