PubMed Field Tags

FIELD NAME

[TAG]

SEARCHES

Author Affiliation

[AD]

First listed author’s institutional affiliation

Author

[AU]

Author name

Corporate Name as Author

[CN]

Corporate names as authors

EC/RN Number

[RN]

CAS Registry Numbe or Enzyme Commission Number

Entrez Date

[EDAT]

Date citation was added to database

Journal Title

[TA]

Title of journal

Language

[LA]

Language of the article (not the abstract)

MeSH Major Topic

[MAJR]

Main topic of an article

MeSH Subheading

[SH]

MeSH Subheading

MeSH Term

[MH]

MeSH Term

Personal Name as Subject

[PS]

Person as the subject of an article, not as an author

Publication Type

[PT]

Format of an article (letter, clinical trial, etc) rather than content

Subset

[SB]

Subject and citation subsets (see reverse)

Substance Name

[NM]

Chemical and substance names discussed in an article

Text Word

[TW]

Textual fields of PubMed records

Title

[TI]

Article title

Title or Abstract

[TIAB]

Words in an article title or an abstract