Sort pubmed_central search results by relevance versus default newest #953
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By default, it looks like pubmed_central results are sorted by latest. This can produce results that are not helpful.
The added sort=relevance parameter can be tried with a link like this:
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pmc&term=what+are+the+physiological+functions+of+calcium+AND+free+fulltext%5Bfilter%5D&retmax=3&usehistory=y&retmode=json&sort=relevance