Extract Publication Date from PubMed Citations
extract_pm_date.RdExtracts most complete publication date possible from Pubmed citations.
Details
This function uses a step-wise approach, attempting first to extract a full date, subsequently a year & month and, if that is not available, just the year. This approach is designed to prevent accidental matches to year values found in titles.
NOTE: When the day is missing, this function will return a full date using the first day of the month. When both the month and day are missing, this\ function will return the first day of the year.