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# PubMed Highly Cited

_Current as of December 4, 2025_

This dataset is metadata (id, publication date, title, link, # citations) for the Top 100 most highly cited PubMed articles. It was created using [paperetl](https://github.com/neuml/paperetl) and the [PubMed Baseline](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/download/).

## Retrieve article abstracts

The full article abstracts can be retrieved via the [PubMed API](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/dataguide/eutilities/utilities.html#efetch). This method accepts batches of PubMed IDs.