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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Find a specific paper on information retrieval method supporting literature research searching not by keywords but by documents
About 2012, I did a literature research on the following topic but unfortunately lost my results. Specifically one paper comes repeatedly to my mind, therefore maybe someone knows about this or ...
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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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Is it possible to retrieve easily all the Nature papers featured the cover since 1950? [closed]
Is there a way to read efficiently old papers? For example, to read all the Science and Nature cover papers since 1950?
How do you read old/fundamental literature?
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Downloading abstracts using Mendeley
I am using Mendeley for my reference management. As I am doing a Systematic Literature review, I have to filter out my search result entries based on inclusion and exclusion criteria after reading the ...
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Paper Suggestion/Recommendation Tools [closed]
To make literature search simpler and more efficient, I'm looking for a good tool that would come up with a list of publications based on a given set of publications/research areas. So far, I've found ...
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What is an optimal reading order for a set of related papers?
A common problem I encounter every time I do a literature search on a new subject is determining a reading order for papers. It feels akin to jumping into a prolific sci-fi fantasy series, but since ...
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Finding more recent review articles
How can I find a more recent review article in a topic I am interested in? I have found a review article on biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles published in 2015. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop....
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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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Alternative to google scholar in China
Are there any valid alternatives to google scholar?
I am currently living in China. almost the whole internet is blocked, including Google. I tried to bypass the firewall, then google scholar tends ...
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Does Google Scholar limit the length of its search terms?
On researchgate, I found the following paper that describes the application of a systematic mapping. I was curious whether the describe search term could be also found using Google Scholar.
The ...
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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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How did researchers find articles before the Internet and the computer era?
I find it hard to write a literature review, even though I have Google, the Internet, and all free, very easy to search for information tools.
I have to search for days to find a piece of information ...
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Is it possible to automatically obtain abstracts and citations from a list of references?
I have a list of about 150 references stored in my reference manager. They are from my dissertation. My end goal is to do a bibliometric analysis of these papers to visualize their network of ...
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How to search for articles citing a certain combination of papers? [duplicate]
It is often the case that the proposal of a specific idea or approach to a problem (or whole field of research) triggers a sequel of papers discussing and extending this idea. In this sequel there ...
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Is there a way to search specifically for literature reviews which have been written by others on a certain topic? [duplicate]
Is there a way to search specifically for literature reviews which have been written by others on a certain topic?
I’d like the search to either return literature reviews on their own or contained ...
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Can I ask a publisher for a paper that I need for reviewing [duplicate]
I was asked to review a technical paper for a journal at a large commercial publisher. The paper extends on another publication that is cited several times throughout the document. The cited paper was ...
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How can unaffilitated individuals sign up for Web of Knowledge / Science?
I am conducting a meta-analysis of literature and several individuals recommended that I use Web of Knowledge, instead of just Google Scholar. The specific part of it I would need would be Web of ...
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Meta-analysis using Google Scholar - are all years equally complete?
Like so many others, I scrape data from Google Scholar as a part of my lit review process, so that I can have a structured data set for meta-analysis of the literature.
I noticed that for a couple of ...
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Can I cite almost total literature survey from a textbook unit?
Suppose I'm writing a research paper on topic T.
Additionally, suppose there is a textbook or research paper on topic T that covers all the progress of the topic from its initial time to 2018 ...
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How to approach a problem if I am new in the field?
I recently came across a problem related to image recognition in Deep Learning. One fine morning, I was struck with the idea that possibly I could do something about it if I merged GANs with CNNs. As ...
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Find PI's main publications
Nowadays, people in biology make huge collaborations, so of course they're all having loads of publications.
Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way, on Google Scholar or on other sites, to ...
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Equivalents of PubMed in other fields
I work in biomedical sciences, and whenever I need to look up an article - or find recent references about a certain field of biology - I just go to PubMed, because it collects information from the ...
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Searching for specific characters in publication titles
Is there any way to search for articles that include a specific character in their name? For instance, suppose you want to find articles that include $, £ or € in their title. When I have tried to ...
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Does this tool exist: Literature search citation filter?
I'm wondering if a tool/website to do a specific task exists:
Suppose I have a set of papers (which we'll say for simplicity are hosted on the arxiv), S. I want to keep track of all 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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Alternatives to Google Scholar for citation / lit search / BibTex entries? [closed]
Simple question: What alternatives are there to Google Scholar for finding citations, doing lit searches, and most importantly, downloading citation data in BibTex?
There are lots of specialized ...
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Should we do literature search in Incognito mode?
I found a claim that literature search (in Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, etc) should be performed in Incognito/Private Browsing mode.
According to the claim, search results ...
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Why isn't literature search a waste of time if centralized documentation is a better alternative?
I am asking this question regarding to the documents (thesis, research papers, and publications) that contain original, novel work.
Before starting to write a research paper/ thesis, searching for a ...
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Tool that suggests references based on a given bibliography [closed]
I'd like to have a tool (software or website) that helps me in doing literature surveys. Here's how I pictured that tool in my mind.
Let's suppose that I've found myself a few relevant papers. As soon ...
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On the possibility and legality of bulk downloading papers from IEEE Xplore
Is it possible to download all available literature from IEEE Xplore? Is it allowed?
I was thinking that now, while I still have access due to being in academia, I might download everything I could ...
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How to see citation contexts of all the papers that cite a paper?
Given a paper, I'm looking for a quick way to see the citation contexts of papers that cite that paper, to gauge both the direction and intensity of sentiment towards the original paper and help me ...
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Literature search engine including citation count, year, and the conference presented at
When I am searching for literature on a particular topic, I'd like to see a list of results together with three main pieces of information: citation count, year, and publication venue (i.e., ...
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Request an unpublished paper owned by another (foreign) university
I am a graduate student at a US university. One of the papers I need for my research is a Ph.D. thesis, owned by the University of Birmingham, U.K. (but this question is for a more general case). That ...
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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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How to find papers having datasets?
It is becoming common for authors to upload raw data of their research when publishing their papers. However, it is still a small fraction of papers include the dataset.
Is there a way to search for ...
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Find papers authored by a specific number of authors
For some concrete study, I need to find for some keywords, papers that have just one author. I used PubMed, Scopus and ISI Web of Science, but in any case, I could not find a way to filter ...
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How do I find the most cited authors given one or more MESH terms?
I would like to be able to give some academic database (like pubmed) a list of MESH terms (MESH: Medical Subject Headings created by the National Library of Medicine), then select papers by authors ...
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Help someone in research paper in practical using my coding skills [closed]
I'm a developer and I want to help someone in research and be a part of it by implementing it practical. Where I can find those people?
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What to do if there is no book about a certain topic?
I am currently researching the foundations of graph theory (math). I have noticed two kind of things in introduction books.
There are results seemingly so obvious nobody writes about it.
There are ...
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How to enter a completely new research area as a 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate?
Based on your personal experience, how may someone enter a completely new research area as a 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate? Is it better to start with reading journal papers? Or maybe taking some courses? ...
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Getting help from friend for literature search [duplicate]
Suppose person A has a research project where they need to find a few articles on a particular topic, and write a review of these papers.
Being busy with other coursework, and feeling overwhelmed by ...
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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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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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Most efficient way of finding out if someone has already published your idea? [closed]
As far as I see, there are two extreme methods of finding out whether someone has already published your idea:
Read everything that has ever been written, and then decide whether any of it ...
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What is the "chain search" method for literature search?
I am working through a tutorial about literature search, reading, and writing. It says:
Chain Search:
A chain search consists of finding suitable literature by letting one text lead you to the ...
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Checking whether you have cited some other researcher
Sometimes you need to find out quickly whether one of your papers has cited a particular researcher given only the name of that researcher. Is there a tool for that? Assume you have used the bibtex ...
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Literature review and authorship
Let's say a research assistant has provided help on conducting a literature review and that some of the references are eventually used in a published paper. Would the research assistant normally get ...
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Tips for literature search
So I'm doing my senior thesis (undergrad) on the politics of emerging technologies and how that applies to artificial intelligence policy. I've been trying to look at past examples of technologies as ...
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where the term of startup came from? [closed]
I am finding literature about the term startup came from, which is referring to budding company. However, the info is scarce. Can anyone suggest to me, what the best website to find for terminology/...
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What strategies are there for finding literature for a literature survey when the terminology used is diverse?
I want to write a literature survey on a topic, let's say it's risk of crime due to a new technology, let's say due to the Gutenberg press. However, when I search for the overall theme (crime and "...
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