I am currently using Google Scholar to receive alerts (emails) for new publications in my field. However, to my understanding (I might be wrong) Google Scholar doesn't allow to:
- Use regular expression
- might very useful for looking at variants (noun, adjective, adverb) of the word of interest
Indicate the field where the matching pattern should be found
- author name: if you write the name of an author, you just get all the paper that (s)he publish and all the papers that cite him/her. Also, if the author has a short and common name such as
Do
then, Google Scholar will basically send tons of articles. - title: If I am looking for a concept that is used in a whole lot of different papers but only few papers really work on it such as the word
evolution
for example, then it would be useful to be able to ask for publications that contain the wordevolution
in the title only. - Journal: Well... because we all have our favourite journals.
- author name: if you write the name of an author, you just get all the paper that (s)he publish and all the papers that cite him/her. Also, if the author has a short and common name such as
Use AND and OR statements
- Such as for example: Give me all new publications which author is
John Smith
AND where the wordaction potential
is present in the title OR the article hasneurophysiology
as a keyword. Something likeauthor: John Smith AND (title: action potential OR keyword: neurophysiology)
- Such as for example: Give me all new publications which author is
There are probably various algorithms that can be found online that would allow one to receive alerts for new publications. Can you give me recommendations of what (and why) is best to use for receiving alerts?
FYI: My field is evolutionary biology and more precisely theoretical population genetics. I am particularly bothered by the fact that I am working on the concept of robustness in evolutionary developmental biology but the word robustness has meaning in so many different sciences and I just receive tons of alerts that are no relevant to my work.