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PubMedQA

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Commercial use
Yes
Derivatives
Yes
Redistribution
Yes
File on Mdexa
NoLink only

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

PermissiveLink onlyMITSave

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Key facts

Domain
Biomedical literature · Clinical medicine Modern medicine
Content
QA, dialogue and instruction data · Annotated corporato answer research questions with yes/no/maybe (e.g.: Do preoperative statins reduce atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting?) using the corresponding abstracts.
Size
—As stated: 100K<n<1M, 10K<n<100K, 1K<n<10K
Language / modality
English / Text
Publisher
qiaojin
Year
—
Expert review
—
Verification
Verified: license text seen

Commercial use of PubMedQA

Commercial use: Yes. License status: Permissive.

Conditions
Notice kept

Quoted statements and their sources are in PubMedQA license evidence.

Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

Tags

Task format
Multiple-choice (single answer)

Quoted from the sourcetask_ids: - multiple-choice-qaSnapshot s16

Intended use
Evaluation

Quoted from the source500 questions in the `pqa_labeled` are used as the test set.Snapshot s16

Specialty
Multi-specialty
Source type
Research literature
Benchmark status
Public leaderboard

Quoted from the sourceThe official leaderboard is available at: https://pubmedqa.github.io/.Snapshot s16

Author-statedInferredHuman-confirmed

PubMedQA license evidence 3

  1. Hugging Face card metadataPage opened
    MIT
    Third-party text · Hugging Face card metadata"mit"

    Statement found in snapshot s18 (api-hf)

    huggingface.co2026-11-12 · s18
  2. READMEPage opened
    MIT
    Third-party text · READMElicense: - mit

    Statement found in snapshot s16 (readme)

    huggingface.co2026-11-12 · s16
  3. Dataset pagePage opened
    MIT
    Third-party text · Dataset pageLicense: mit

    Statement found in snapshot s17 (page)

    huggingface.co2026-11-12 · s17

Source and lineage

No upstream or downstream datasets recorded.

Known issues with PubMedQA

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

Preflight

Not run Runs only on ingested data; says nothing about quality.

Downloading PubMedQA and API access

No file on Mdexa (see the verdict). Get it from the source and confirm the terms there:

5 files · 300.5 MB

Citing PubMedQA

Mdexa, PubMedQA, https://mdexa.com/datasets/pubmedqa/, verified 2026-11-14.
More citation details

The source gives no citation text; the line above cites this card.

Machine-readable

pubmedqa.jsonpubmedqa.mdcatalog.json

Change log 1
2026-11-14Added via the automated pipeline and passed all checks (gates, verbatim quotes, rule engine, two independent extractions).

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