Pubmed

The PubMed icon represents the essential biomedical literature database maintained by the National Library of Medicine, providing free access to over 35 million citations from MEDLINE and life sciences journals. This symbol identifies the primary discovery tool for biomedical and health sciences research, offering advanced search capabilities, MeSH term indexing, and integration with full-text repositories. PubMed has become the indispensable starting point for medical literature searches worldwide.

In clinical and research workflows, medical students conduct PubMed searches for evidence-based medicine assignments using MeSH terms for precision. Physicians access clinical guidelines and systematic reviews for treatment decisions, while biomedical researchers perform comprehensive literature reviews identifying relevant prior work. The platform's integration with PubMed Central for open-access full text and LinkOut for subscription access has made it central infrastructure for connecting users with biomedical knowledge across access models.

From a biomedical information perspective, this icon signifies more than just a search engine - it represents publicly-funded universal access to medical knowledge, enables evidence-based clinical practice through comprehensive literature discovery, and provides the foundation for systematic reviews and meta-analyses advancing medical science. This distinction helps users recognize PubMed as foundational infrastructure for global health knowledge access.

Pubmed is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 384 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds PubmedIcon to components/icons/academicons-pubmed.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed PubmedIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Pubmed icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 384 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Pubmed", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PubmedIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PubmedIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Pubmed. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are medical, database, research and literature. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pubmed in another set.