Last updated on April 21, 2025
Introduction
The Citeline feeds provide comprehensive real-time R&D intelligence to the Life Sciences industry, including expert insights on key diseases, clinical trials, drug R&D and approvals, market forecasts, and more.
The Citeline Feed Connection provides three products:
- Citeline Sitetrove
- Citeline Drugs
- Citeline Trials
- Citeline Insights
To use this service, your organization needs a Citeline subscription.
Your organization can enable the Citeline connector on its own, or InfoDesk can assist with activation using the credentials provided by Citeline.
Depending on your subscription, you will have access to one or more Citeline products.
Contact your InfoDesk Account Manager for more information and assistance.
How to Configure a Citeline Drugs Feed
Citeline Drugs provides clinical trial intelligence to support drug R&D.
To connect a Citeline Drugs feed to your Inbox, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Inboxes and open your Inbox. Select InfoLab from the More menu on the far right in the top menu of the inbox.
- Click the New Feed button and select the Citeline feed in the drop-down menu. This will open a new form called "New Citeline Feed".
- Alternatively, click the New Feed button on the connectors tile to go to the Preview and Add Filter page, where you can apply filters to select specific content from Citeline.
- If multiple products are subscribed, click the "New Feed" button on the connectors tile. A popup menu will appear, allowing you to select a product for the connection you intend to create.
Preview and filter a Citeline Drugs Feed
Use the Filter menu to the left to add filters to your feed. This step is very important to reduce the amount of data and ensure that the information that reaches your inbox is relevant
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The filter menu offers various search options that can be combined to optimize your search result and filter. These options include a free text search and Citeline Drugs specific filters and facets.
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- To search for specific keywords or phrases, use the search bars under the Text section, which includes Title, and Description.
- To narrow down the search, use the facets under the Citeline Drugs filters along with the AND, OR, and NOT operators to further refine your search. Note that the filters and facets are only enabled when content matches the filters. Read more about the filter options under the “Filter Options” section below. More information about combining keywords and creating search strings is available in Help
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Preview the filter result in the Preview Post list and adjust your filter options until you are satisfied with the outcome.
The chart above the post list displays the number of retrieved posts within the specified Time period, providing an estimate of the amount of information your feed will generate over time. You can change the time period by clicking the Calendar button above the chart.
Red bars indicate that your feed will generate more information than is allowed in your inbox. Change your filters until the bars are all yellow.
- When ready, click the Save button to save your changes. Alternatively, you can click the Next button to proceed to the Settings page.
- On the Settings page, you can change the name and description of your updated feed and select another target inbox.
- Optionally, check the Restricted checkbox to prevent others from updating the feed. When restricted, a padlock icon will appear on the Feed in InfoLab.
- Press Save to save/update the feed. Your feed is now connected to your inbox and available from the Feed page in InfoLab.
Filter Options
This section contains information about the Filter options for the Citeline Drugs feeds.
The filter menu offers various search options that can be combined to optimize your search results.
These options include free text search, Advanced Query, and Citeline Drugs-specific filters. Most of the filters provide predefined facet options that you can select from to specify your filter. Note that filters and facets are only enabled when content matches the filters.
Use the AND, OR, and NOT operators to refine your search further.
- Use the OR operator to include one or the other facet within a filter category. This gives a broad search.
- Use the AND operator to require that both facets are included within a filter category. This narrows the search.
- Use the NOT operator to exclude specified facets within a filter category.
Your search result will be displayed above the bar chart to provide an overview of your chosen filters. With more than four facet buttons, click the Show more button to view all facets.
If the post list view is empty, no content matches your search within the set time period or filters. Change the Time period or adjust the filters and preview the result. The default period is “Past week”.
Advanced Query
The Advanced Query Filter empowers you to craft highly specific search queries and allows you to target your search by entering criteria directly for each supported indexed field. Use the advanced Query to refine your search results and pinpoint the exact information you require.
Using the Advanced Query Filters
Define a field search operation using fieldName:searchExpression syntax. The search expression can be a single word, a phrase, or a more complex expression (in parentheses), optionally with Boolean operators. For example:
- title:(federal NOT local)
The field specified in fieldName:searchExpression must be an indexed field. Click the info button in the Advanced Query filter to view the supported fields.
Text Filter
The Text filter allows for free text searches. You can use a single keyword, combine several keywords, or create a complete search string.
You can choose to search in the Title or Description depending on how wide or narrow you want your filter to be.
Title: Only include content matching your search query in the article title. This is the narrowest text search.
Description: Search in the article Description for a broader search.
Predefined Filters and facets
The Citeline Drugs filter menu includes a range of predefined filter and facet options. Use the filter search bar and then click on the facet buttons to set your filter.
Drug Synonyms: Search by drug synonyms or use the predefined facets to filter drug synonyms. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Global Status: Search by clinical trial status or use the predefined facets to filter drug by status. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Development Status: Search by development status or use the predefined facets to filter drug by development status. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Licensee Names: Search by the name of the company that owns the drug name or use the predefined facets to filter by licensee name. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Indication Group Name: Search by the medical condition group for which the drug is used, or use the predefined facets to filter by indication name. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Disease Names: Search by specific disease names or use the predefined facets to filter type of disease. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Delivery Route: Search by how the drug is taken or use the predefined facets to filter by the delivery route. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Countries: Search by country names or use the predefined facets to filter by country. Click on “Show more” to view all the options.
Best Practices
Text Query
A good start when filtering content is to start with a text query.
You can use one single keyword or several keywords or create a complete search string. You can read more about how to combine keywords and create search strings in Help.
Depending on how wide or narrow you would like your search to be, you can search only the Title or the Description.
Filters and facets
Use predefined filters and facets to specify your search. Use the filters that best match your query. Use the AND, OR, and NOT operators to refine your search.
The list of posts that appears when you add filters allows you to preview the filters before applying them. Review the preview post list to ensure that the posts retrieved by the filter meet your expectations.
Optionally, use additional filters and facets to refine your search.
Commonly used filters and Recommendations
The Indication Group Name filter is the most used filter option, along with the Text filters, and they are a good start for your search.
Other common filter options are the Global Status and Development Status filters, which let you focus on drug development phases, such as only filtering on the highest phase.
All other filters are also commonly used to further drill down the search.
We recommend that you start by adding a text query (one or several keywords or a search string) in the Title + Description text bars in combination with the Indication Group Name filter.
Refine your search by using additional filters and facets, such as Global Status or Development phases.
Preview the result and optionally use additional filters and facets to refine your search.
Good to Know
Time Period
When choosing the Time Period for the preview post list, you have the option of selecting from the past 24 hours, past week, past month, Past three months, past six months. The default time period is the past week.
Max Number of Posts
If your filter retrieves more posts than allowed, the chart bars will turn red, and you will be prompted to adjust your filter.
Note that the maximum number of posts accepted in Inboxes is 100 posts per day.
Categories Displayed on Posts in the Preview Post list
The categories shown on the posts in the preview post list on the Preview and filter page in InfoLab are only used in InfoLab and will not follow the posts to the inboxes.
Text Query Highlights
Words matching the text query keywords are highlighted in the title and article content in the preview post list to assist you in reviewing the articles and their relevance.
Manage Citeline Feeds
You can manage all your feeds from the InfoLab Feeds page.
To manage your feeds, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the InfoLab Feeds page from the main menu or start from your Inbox and select InfoLab from the More menu.
- Use the search bar at the top of the page to find your feed.
- Click the Menu button to the far right on the feed row to open the menu.
- Select Edit to open the Preview and add Filter page, and edit the feed. In the "Preview and filter" section, you can find more instructions on how to edit a feed.
- Select Set Automatic Categorization to tag all posts from this feed automatically. Use the search bar or open the taxonomy to find and select categories. Press Save.
- Select Deactivate to pause your feed. A pause button will appear on the feed, and the feed will stop retrieving posts to your inbox. Clicking Activate in the feed menu will reactivate the feed.
- To change the inbox where the feed is directed, click on Select Inbox and select another inbox.
- Select Delete to delete the feed from InfoLab.
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