NIH · Friday, September 25, 2026
NIH launches Linked Discoveries, a PubMed tool covering more than 29 million papers
The File desk · Sep 25, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC
Status
Confirmed (NIH news release, Sept. 24, 2026)
On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, the National Institutes of Health launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool from the National Library of Medicine. From a PubMed citation, a reader can open a neighborhood of closely related papers, including replication studies. More than 29 million PubMed publications are in the tool at launch. It does not grade a study or declare that a finding was successfully replicated.
On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, the National Institutes of Health launched Linked Discoveries.
The National Library of Medicine, which runs PubMed, built the tool. From a citation, a user can explore a neighborhood of closely related publications, including replication studies.
More than 29 million PubMed publications are represented at launch. The public page is linkeddiscoveries.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
The institutes said the tool uses an approach informed by artificial intelligence. Readers can look at connections in a graph or on a timeline, and filter by conditions, genes, and chemicals. The view can show citations, reviews, retractions, and papers the institutes funded.
Linked Discoveries does not judge the quality of a study, and it does not decide whether a finding was successfully replicated.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said the point is to see how findings connect as the literature grows. National Library of Medicine Director Peter Embí said the neighborhood view is meant to show work that came before and after a paper.
The institutes called this the first public version and said they will keep testing it with user feedback.
What is still unknown or disputed
- How the relatedness score is calculated; whether later versions will add a quality judgment. The release does not.
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NIH launches new PubMed tool to strengthen research replication and reproducibility
National Institutes of Health · September 24, 2026
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help scientists more easily see how an individual research finding relates to the larger body of biomedical evidence. More than 29 million PubMed publications are represented in Linked Discoveries at launch. Linked Discoveries does not judge the quality of a study or determine whether a finding has been successfully replicated.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-new-pubmed-tool-strengthen-research-replication-reproducibility