dsh-pubmed

In the dsh ecosystem, academic search plugins have historically focused on arXiv, dblp, OpenAlex, and Crossref—general and computer-science-oriented databases. PubMed, the authoritative biomedical literature repository, has been left out. If your work sits in life sciences, pharmacology, or clinical medicine and you need to trace an author's publication history, verify mentor-student co-authorship, or flag retractions, the existing toolchain simply does not reach far enough. dsh-pubmed fills that gap.

It ships seven tools, all routed through NCBI E-utilities public endpoints with no API key and zero npm runtime dependencies. The set ranges from pubmed_search for field-tagged literature retrieval and pubmed_fetch for batch metadata pulling, to pubmed_author and pubmed_disambiguate for per-author investigation and same-name disambiguation by affiliation, pubmed_institution for institutional publication counts with yearly distribution, pubmed_mentor_match for mentor-student co-authorship intersection, and pubmed_retraction for retraction and misconduct checks. A built-in 350 ms throttle keeps the plugin within NCBI's three-requests-per-second rate limit.

Who is it for? PhD students, postdocs, PIs, and any researcher whose workflow in biomedicine goes beyond a simple keyword search and demands structured, multi-angle investigation of PubMed. No configuration, no credentials—install, restart dsh, and the tools appear in the agent's list.