getEuropePmcCitations

Free

List the articles that cite a paper (citedBy) or the papers it cites (references), from Europe PMC's citation network, including preprints. Sort citing papers by most cited to find the influential follow-up work. Returned ids chain into getArticle, findEuropePmcPassages or pubmed-mcp (PMIDs).

Try it

Open in playground
kirha tools run europepmc_getEuropePmcCitations \
  --input '{
    "id": "<id>"
  }'

Uses the key saved by kirha auth login.

  • idstring, required

    Article id from searchArticles or getArticle, a PMID, PMCID, PPR preprint id or DOI

  • directionstring, default "citedBy"

    One of citedBy, references

  • limitinteger, default 25, 1 to 100
  • pageinteger, default 1, 1 to 9007199254740991
  • sortstring, default "source_order"

    One of source_order, most_cited, newest