Pure. 0 is a real count and comes back as 0L; only an absent count is
NA.
References
Wei et al. (2024). PubTator 3.0: an AI-powered literature resource for unlocking biomedical knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research 52(W1), W540-W546. doi:10.1093/nar/gkae235
Service documentation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/pubtator3/