Stopwords

PubMed also refers to a list of commonly found words that are referred to as "stopwords." Stopwords are words that, if indexed, could potentially return every document in the database if the word was used in a search statement.

Consequently, commonly found words are not indexed and PubMed will ignore them.

Go to PubMed's Help to view the list of stopwords.

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