If you do a PubMed search for BRCA1, you can indeed find over 9, 600 papers, as I did today.

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The National Institutes of Health's PubMed database lists every article published in a major medical journal going back decades.

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He has published papers analyzing 742 English language research papers that were retracted from the PubMed database from 2000-2010.

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By a quick check on PubMed, the (young) doctor I met there has about 60 publications to his name, all in well-respected journals.

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It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.

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One tool is PubMed, that searches National Institute of Health databases, another is Presidential Election 2012, which tracks election info in an non-partisan way.

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To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.

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That long tail includes about a hundred databases of specialized information that the search engine is now working on indexing, such as the Security and Exchange Commission's online filings and the online collection of medical journals known as PubMed.

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