Questions tagged [literature-search]
Questions about finding specific papers, books, etc. pertaining to a topic. This includes the use of online databases such as Google Scholar or PubMed to find relevant articles.
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Is there a tool for visualizing the geographic locations of research?
Many e-journals search tools contain much metadata in their database. For example, they have the "location" entry required for some citation formats, which at least shows the location of the journal, ...
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Where to search for 60's Russian literature [duplicate]
I am looking for some 60's Russian literature. I have found citations of the sources, but I cannot find places to access them. The university library said they cannot help me. I would appreciate any ...
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NEAR/n or W/n operators returning irrelevant results
I'm trying to conduct a systematic review. Unfortunately one of the necessary search terms is "data". I have tried constructing my terms so that any single mention of "data" ...
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How does everyone do their lterature reviews? [duplicate]
I have to do a literature review and have never done one before. What are some methods to do this?
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I "lost" a paper: what can I do?
Half a year ago I stumbled across a noteworthy peer-reviewed article that was very relevant to my current research area. Being a noteworthy idiot, I didn't save it nor take a note (to be fair, I wasn'...
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API for Scientific Literature Search
I have to dig through a large number of scientific papers (~26K), all with DOI links. I've built a small Python script for searching through the papers. Now I want to have more data about those papers....
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How to use more than 8 boolean operators in ScienceDirect advanced search? [closed]
The advanced search in the ScienceDirect database seems to be limited to 8 boolean operators at max. This number of operators might not be sufficient, especially when applying a search string within a ...
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Unable to find well-known fluid dynamics paper [duplicate]
I am writing my MSc thesis on a certain topic in fluid dynamics. Of particular relevance to my MSc is the Stuart-Landau equation. In the linked Wikipedia article, they reference a paper written by ...
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How Far To Chase The Paper?
Because I have autism I am forced to go it alone for writing a computer science research paper outside of conventional US university auspices toward a doctorate by publication through an accredited UK ...
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Boolean searches on Web of Science and other databases - how to exclude a term ONLY when it does not appear with another
Hi everyone and thanks for looking
I really hope I'm not asking a daft question, but I want to exclude a term unless it comes with another term in a search containing multiple strings. In my precise ...
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How to identify the publications that cite two specific papers?
Finding the citations of any particular paper is straightforward.
But how do you identify the set of publications that cite two specific papers?
The reason I am asking this is because I am trying ...
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List of citation graph browsers?
What are good ways to explore/discover literature visually, e.g. a visual interface for Google Scholar? There are a few tools to explore the citation graph ("which papers cite which papers"). Some are ...
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What tools exist for organizing the most recent papers covering a specific topic?
Inspired by the recent post, How can I be up-to-date on recent papers, practically?, I want to know what tools exist for finding recent papers (pre-print and published) on specific topics.
The recent ...
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How to search in Google Scholar within a particular conference?
Using Google's search operators, guide, we can restrict our search to that of a particular web domain, eg: site:twitter.com Paul Daniels
Within Google Scholar, can we perform a similar in nature ...
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How can I find an old, obscure, or otherwise inaccessible paper when the usual methods fail?
I am trying and failing to find a particular paper. My university's library catalogue, Google Scholar, and Google all came up empty. I even tried the catalogue of the paper's institutional affiliation,...
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Google Scholar does not return a report of 2016 when using as custom range 2016-2023
When searching for the string "open* education*" selecting Anytime, Google Scholar returns as 4th result "Opening up education: A support framework for higher education institutions&...
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How do I search for literature containing specific math equations?
When one looks for relevant literature, one turns to platforms such as Google Scholar or Web of Science. I want to search literature (or research articles) that include a specific mathematics equation....
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Finding correct articles for SLR from different databases?
I have to do a systematic literature review (SLR) as part of a university course. I have found all search terms etc, but now I have to narrow down the search to research articles. I've been stuck for ...
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How to search for one phrase in the title and a different phrase in the abstract in a single Google Scholar search?
I would like to search for all papers which have both a specific phrase in the title titlephrase and also another phrase in the abstract abstractphrase.
intitle:"titlephrase" should do the ...
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Literature research: Are IEEE and ACM covered in Scopus?
We performed a systematic literature review using the three databases Scopus, ACM Digital Library, and IEEE Xplore. Comment from one reviewer was that Scopus contains the other two databases, and thus ...
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Are articles without any abstract reliable?
I'm writing a thesis which consists in a literature review and I came across some articles whose titles seem to be appropriate for my research, but they don't have any abstract and their full text is ...
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Finding dissertations as reference material
I'm a mathematician/computer scientist (my interests lie around the intersection of the two), and often when I want an introduction to a new research area I find that well-written dissertations are ...
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Limits of academic search engines
Having spent quite a lot of time going through the literature on my research topic, I've been disappointed by the search features offered by the dominant academic databases and search engine (Web of ...
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How to find the most related publications for a batch?
On Google Scholar, I can explore the related articles or books individually - clicking on the "related articles" gives you the related articles for that specific publication.
How will I find the ...
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How do you manage your literature and references?
I have many PDFs (articles, reports and other literature) in various folders, and most of them are also in Endnote, which I have always used as a reference manager. However, the references in Endnote ...
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How to admit that the cited source is lost? [duplicate]
I am trying to replicate a certain paper, which derived an important formula based on five other papers.
In order to do a correct replication with insight into sources of error, I need to gather all ...
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Where can I find a paper that has been cited multiple times but only ever appears as a citation?
I'm doing an assignment on early warning score (EWS) systems as part of a postgraduate diploma in Medical Technologies.
The progenitor of the system is cited in several papers as Morgan et al.
Morgan, ...
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Search articles by a specific conference in dblp
I am doing a seminar work as part of a Computer science bachelor's degree. One of the first steps is to submit the articles that the seminar work will be based on. The topic I chose is Malware ...
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How to find book titles in other languages?
I received a major task from my professor and I was wondering what approach is academic custom to take in such a case.
My supervisor wrote an article on a certain topic (I prepared already some ...
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Is there a way to get rid of "enhanced pdf"s?
It has become increasedly more common that when I try to access an article from the publisher's website I get redirected to a sort of online reader instead of a plain old pdf file to download. ...
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Find articles that share datasets and code
I am working on some project, in which I would like to find articles where they use some computer code to treat data, and the used datasets and code is totally available (github, personal website, etc)...
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Can companies source paywalled scientific articles from authors?
I work for a company in the medical sector that, among other things, conducts literature searches and submits them to regulators for approval prior to product launch. The company currently pays for ...
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What is the most effective and efficient method of searching multiple journals for multiple keywords?
My goal is to find articles related to invasive species management on a monthly basis. I have a list of species for my region (i.e keywords) and a list of journals. Although I enjoy combing through ...
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Google scholar: Search papers by all the authors with particular label
Is it possible to use google scholar to search all the papers by a list of authors who has a particular label.
Example: all the papers by the authors with label:power_electronics
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Is it ethical to do paid literature searches of research journals for other students?
Is it unethical to research journals for other students?
For example, a student is researching gifted students and their subsequent ACT/SAT scores. Then:
Would it be unethical for me to research ...
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How to find only the papers that cite a particular article in an important way?
I'm having the following problem: There is some interesting paper (in machine learning) which is cited by 180 other papers (according to Google Scholar). From these 180, I want to find the papers that ...
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Is there a tool to visualize the citation network which works with Google Scholar?
I know about tools like CitNet Explorer and VOSviewer, but they only work with Web of Science, which doesn't contain many papers I'd like to have in the network.
Is there any software, which does the ...
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How to export search results from Elsevier?
I am doing a systematic review and I am cataloging my searches.
I've already exported the search results from IEEE, and from Springer, with one click to an CSV file.
So I wonder how to do the same ...
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How likely is it that an PhD examiner will find something I've missed? And if they do, how much of a problem is it?
I'm coming up to the end of my PhD. My work is industry funded, so although I've presented my work, and written technical reports and patents*, I'm probably not as experienced in 'scientific writing' ...
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What would be the best search method to conduct a literature review on anatomical variations? [closed]
I'm currently conducting a literature review into anatomical variations of the portal vein. I'm using OVID and just wanted to check whether this is an efficient search strategy.
This is the Search ...
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Systematic Literature Review: enhance context in discussion
Currently I am writing a Systematic Literature Review. I am aware of the systematic approach. But do the papers also constrain my discussion? Am I allowed to widen the frame by including related facts ...
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How can I tell that I have done enough literature research? Is there a specific amount of time one should devote to it? [closed]
Finding and gathering references can be a quite time-consuming task as it demands one to get accustomed with the terminology and concepts of the related topic / area.
How much time should one devote ...
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Search techniques for finding references at the start of reviewing the literature for your research?
Whenever we start new research, we need to do a literature review first in order to both get acquainted with the context and the concepts related to our research as well as to situate our research ...
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How to view similar articles from a Zotero collection?
Recently I moved from Mendeley to Zotero. In Mendeley I liked that once in a while they sent me article recommendations based on my library. I would like to know how I could manage to achieve ...
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Conducting a literature review, what period should the papers be taken from?
In conducting a literature review i.e., research done on a particular topic for a certain period of time what is the prefered period of the review? Would it be advised if the time period is from 2000 ...
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Why is my published article seemingly not indexed by Google or Google Scholar?
I am a Masters student, in the Faculty of Science in Canada. I have a question to ask regarding literature review. I am doing a bit of studying to find protocols for my experiment (where I hope to ...
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How to conduct an effective literature survey in mathematics?
Due to Covid, I am unable to go to my University and access the University server. As a result I am unable to use MathSciNet. Is there any other way to do a good and effective literature survey on a ...
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Is it possible to do a text search just within the references of a paper?
Do any of the academic search engines provide a way to limit a free text search to just those papers which are cited by a particular paper? In normal google, as an analogy, you can append site:bbc.co....
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Is searching in article references considered a systematic way of literature search?
Doing a systematic review, either quantitative or qualitative, requires developing a well-defined protocol as a method of conducting it. This includes defining the search methods used in the ...
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How to find the state of the art algorithm for a specific problem
Are there any good methods for doing this? I can find papers with algorithms, but they usually do not show their computational results with the same problem sets and the publishing year of two papers ...
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