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Data Item
_citation.year
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Item name
_citation.year
Category name
citation
Attribute name
year
Required in PDB entries
no
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 85.1 % of entries
Item Description
The year of the citation; relevant for journal articles, books and book chapters.
Additional Descriptive Information for Depositors
The year of publication of the article. Example: 2002
Item Example
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1984
Data Type
Data type code
int
Data type detail
int item types are the subset of numbers that are the negative or positive integers.
Primitive data type code
numb
Regular expression
[+-]?[0-9]+
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_citation_year
cif_core.dic
2.0.1