# PubMedQA

License: permissive (MIT); Mdexa hosting: link-only. first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution

- Commercial use: Yes · Derivatives: Yes · Redistribution: Yes · File on Mdexa: No
- License status: Permissive (MIT)
- Mdexa hosting: Link only — License permissive: first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution. Link only.
- Last verified: 2026-11-14
- Card: https://mdexa.com/datasets/pubmedqa/

## Key facts

- Domain: Biomedical literature, Clinical medicine
- Content type: QA, dialogue and instruction data, Annotated corpora
- Size: — — 100K<n<1M, 10K<n<100K, 1K<n<10K
- Language: English
- Modality: Text
- Publisher: qiaojin
- Year: —

## Commercial use of PubMedQA

- Commercial use: Yes.
- License status: Permissive.
- Conditions: Notice kept
Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

## PubMedQA license evidence

first-hand data-scope statement(s) allow commercial use and redistribution

- **Hugging Face card metadata** — MIT: Statement found in snapshot s18 (api-hf) — ""mit"" — https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA (2026-11-12; Page opened)
- **README** — MIT: Statement found in snapshot s16 (readme) — "license: - mit" — https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA (2026-11-12; Page opened)
- **Dataset page** — MIT: Statement found in snapshot s17 (page) — "License: mit" — https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA (2026-11-12; Page opened)

## Source and lineage

—

## Known issues with PubMedQA

- The dataset card leaves the known limitations section as a placeholder rather than describing limitations.

## Preflight

Not run (data not ingested).

## Downloading PubMedQA and API access

Mdexa does not serve files. Original source:
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA

### Access recipe

- .gitattributes · 1 KB · https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/.gitattributes
- README.md · 5 KB · https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/README.md
- pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet · 233.4 MB · sha256 cdee2d3c01369f47d2ea7b89cd32ee64b142cc0debcb863bf39b3a81a3cece05 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet
- pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet · 1.1 MB · sha256 3d56bd1abc11884579ecc3aab9dd3cdfce8b7cf54715daeca93b8022b7be231c · https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet
- pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet · 66.0 MB · sha256 2f390ea5e6e3dc53b2736a52be2f594e05f5d8a599c3de754ad72f1068251e6e · https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet

```sh
curl -L --create-dirs -o ".gitattributes" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/.gitattributes"
curl -L --create-dirs -o "README.md" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/README.md"
curl -L --create-dirs -o "pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet"
echo "cdee2d3c01369f47d2ea7b89cd32ee64b142cc0debcb863bf39b3a81a3cece05  pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet"
echo "3d56bd1abc11884579ecc3aab9dd3cdfce8b7cf54715daeca93b8022b7be231c  pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA/resolve/9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318/pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet"
echo "2f390ea5e6e3dc53b2736a52be2f594e05f5d8a599c3de754ad72f1068251e6e  pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet" | sha256sum -c
```

## Citing PubMedQA

No recommended citation text.
- arXiv:1909.06146

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://mdexa.com/datasets/pubmedqa.json
- 2026-11-14 Added via the automated pipeline and passed all checks (gates, verbatim quotes, rule engine, two independent extractions).

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