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Enum: StudyType

PubMed publication types, spelled as the E-utilities API returns them so that a value needs no translation. Only the design-relevant types are listed; PubMed also returns funding and indexing types, and the vocabulary is open, so any unlisted type passes through verbatim.

URI: neurostudy:StudyType

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
Journal Article None Assigned to every article; carries no design information on its own
Meta-Analysis None A quantitative synthesis of published results
Systematic Review None A structured synthesis with a search protocol but no pooled effect estimate
Review None A review without a systematic search protocol
Randomized Controlled Trial None
Clinical Trial None
Observational Study None
Comparative Study None
Multicenter Study None
Validation Study None
Case Reports None PubMed's spelling is plural
Editorial None
Letter None
Comment None
Preprint None
Retracted Publication None

In Subsets

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://neurostuff.org/schemas/neuroimaging-study-storage

LinkML Source

name: StudyType
description: PubMed publication types, spelled as the E-utilities API returns them
  so that a value needs no translation. Only the design-relevant types are listed;
  PubMed also returns funding and indexing types, and the vocabulary is open, so any
  unlisted type passes through verbatim.
in_subset:
- mvp
- deterministic
from_schema: https://neurostuff.org/schemas/neuroimaging-study-storage
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  Journal Article:
    text: Journal Article
    description: Assigned to every article; carries no design information on its own.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Meta-Analysis:
    text: Meta-Analysis
    description: A quantitative synthesis of published results.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Systematic Review:
    text: Systematic Review
    description: A structured synthesis with a search protocol but no pooled effect
      estimate.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Review:
    text: Review
    description: A review without a systematic search protocol.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Randomized Controlled Trial:
    text: Randomized Controlled Trial
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Clinical Trial:
    text: Clinical Trial
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Observational Study:
    text: Observational Study
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Comparative Study:
    text: Comparative Study
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Multicenter Study:
    text: Multicenter Study
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Validation Study:
    text: Validation Study
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Case Reports:
    text: Case Reports
    description: PubMed's spelling is plural.
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Editorial:
    text: Editorial
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Letter:
    text: Letter
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Comment:
    text: Comment
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Preprint:
    text: Preprint
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic
  Retracted Publication:
    text: Retracted Publication
    in_subset:
    - mvp
    - deterministic