Research on the Latest Progress and Strategies of Non-English Journals Included in PubMed

PubMed is an extremely important database in the biomedical field, including MEDLINE, PubMed Central (PMC), and BookShelf. This study summarizes and analyzes the inclusion of Chinese biomedical journals in PMC (as of November 30, 2025), and summarizes and analyzes the inclusion requirements (database website 2025 edition) and issues encountered during the application process. Solutions are proposed to provide a reference for the application of MEDLINE or PMC for biomedical journals in China. At present, the number of Chinese biomedical journals included in MEDLINE and PMC is limited, but standards are constantly improving, with reviewing articles’ scientific quality as the top priority in evaluating MEDLINE and PMC journals. Therefore, improving the intrinsic quality should be a long-term task for biomedical journals. Journals should attach importance to the scientific nature of papers, increase the proportion of research-oriented papers, strictly adhere to international editing and writing standards, and control the quality of paper editing and writing to meet the standards of international journals.