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MEDLINE Milestone: 30 Millionth Journal Citation

MEDLINE Milestone: 30 Millionth Journal Citation. NLM Tech Bull. 2022 Nov-Dec;(449):b14.

December 12, 2022 [posted]

On December 7, 2022, MEDLINE attained a major milestone when the 30 millionth journal citation was added to the database. This count includes citations created from the OLDMEDLINE project.

This PubMed search retrieves the running count for MEDLINE, which is currently over 30 million citations:

medline [sb]

This PubMed search retrieves the running count for MEDLINE minus the OLDMEDLINE subset, which is currently over 27 million citations:

medline [sb] NOT jsubsetom