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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Literature review both by keywords in title and sorting by publishing date
Is there any free online databases where I can do literature review by
(1) giving keyword(s) that occur in title
(2) at the same time, sorting by publishing date from newest to oldest?
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"Web of science" as search provider in chrome?
Is it possible to use Web of Science from the Chrome Omni-Bar (aka address-bar)?
Chrome supports adding custom searches by mapping a string to a search expression, e.g.
i https://www.google.at/...
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Is there a citation network crawler [tool] for building a bibliography? [closed]
Is there a service/software where I can feed a bibliography, say in BibTex format, and I get all “Cited By” references as a response? In other words, is there an automated “Cited By” crawler?
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How to write summaries for literature survey? [closed]
My professor wanted me to write a short summary (one or two paragraphs max) on each paper. Focus on the salient of the method.
could I use the abstract sentences exactly or should I change the words ...
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Searching for papers from a specific conference
Is there a way to search, using Google Scholar or another tool, for all papers that appeared in a certain conference?
For example, I would like to find all papers that appeared in the recent "EC 17" ...
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How to find papers from conference proceedings? [closed]
I'm starting out in a new field, and reading papers from top conferences in the field seemed as a natural starting point to understanding active research areas in the field. I realized I have never ...
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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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How much attention should I pay to developments in other research fields?
I am at the beginning of my Ph.D. My research lies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, meaning that I will interact with a variety of researchers from several ...
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Is there any forum or FB group where people would exchange academic literature? [closed]
Does anyone know any forum, FB group or other platform where students from different univerisites would exchange academic literature available in their libraries?
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Different behaviour with wildcards on PubMed using quotation marks or not
In my understanding of wildcards I would assume that this search string (in title & abstract fields) would give a result of 0.
telerobot*[tiab] NOT *robot*[tiab]
But it doesn't. The result is 49....
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How to use MeSH Qualifiers in a PubMed search string?
I want to know how I combine a MeSH term with a qualifier. How do I create a search string on PubMed with it. The exact human readable question would be: All publications with MeshTerm "Locomotion" ...
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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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Finding specific types of manuscripts of a journal
I am considering writing an article to a journal. This journal (Bioinformatics) accepts different manuscripts:
Original Papers
Discovery Notes
Application Notes
Reviews
Letters to the Editor
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Following academic development, citation, new publications - From a pre-existing "library"
"Library" in this context means the papers/books that you have in program X (Zotero, Mendeley, etc.) forming the literary core of a project or topic.
Is there an already-established method to ...
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How do I find references and how do I know that they are valid?
I took a pause from school during personal problems and started it again half-year ago. Now that I've finished almost all of it, the last thing I have left is to finish my thesis-work.
My professor ...
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Software to extract citations and abstracts for meta-analysis [closed]
I am conducting a meta-analysis and searching pertinent articles in PubMed. The typical scenario is to apply a dedicated search string, and then retrieve between 50 and 5000 citations including the ...
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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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How does one use a paper that's not written in a language that he can read?
For instance, if a paper is written in Russian, and a researcher wants to use this work and cite it, does he have to learn Russian?
What's the typical practice?
Does he try and use translation tools ...
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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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Search for certain keywords in all articles which cite a given article
I would like to search for certain keywords in all articles which cite a given article. Is this possible? For example using google scholar somehow?
I am new here. Please forgive me if this question ...
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How can the summaries and statements linked to particular references be identified?
Although there are plenty of search engines which allow you to identify citation links - paper Y cites paper X - are there any which identify what statements and summaries are attributed to paper X? ...
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Accessing the arguments of lobby groups
How/where does one get hold of the arguments put forward by lobby groups?
I am currently researching the topic of advertising as it relates to junk food. There are many arguments in favour of ...
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Why might only some papers from a conference be included in Google Scholar?
Why some publications are not included in Google Scholar, while some are, for the same conference?
For example, there are a number of papers on Black Hat:
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/...
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Literature review and originality
Everyday there are hundreds of papers published worldwide in every single area of study. I am mostly interested in architecture and environmental psychology.
A question arises how to assure that we ...
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How to choose a good research problem?
I am working to get a PhD, maybe next year this time around. Currently, this is my second year. I have published 3 papers. All of them are not about one problem but consider different problems. My ...
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Should the incentive of research be discussed in the literature survey?
As a postgraduate engineering student, I'm doing a thesis project on a technical system that encourages people to exercise. Now I need to write a literature survey for it. As I never wrote literature ...
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Google scholar "sort by date" returns articles from last year only?
I am doing a pilot study for my research. When I search in google scholar, it gives me about 10 thousand results for the keywords that are anywhere in the article. I want to narrow my search down to ...
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Find article link by bibtex citation key
I have a list of citation keys (entry names in bib file) but I don't have the name of article. How can I find the article link?
For example, according to bib file of this article, the citation key is ...
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How good is the Google Scholar search Engine? [duplicate]
I've been using Google Scholar search engine for a while in order to find scientific articles for my master thesis, but I've come to notice that the search algorithm is not as good as the real google ...
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How does one ensure their knowledge of a field is complete when doing a literature review
I am a new grad student who is both excited and scared as I embark on this transformational journey. One concern that I have is establishing a current snap shot of my field and identifying boundaries ...
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Can you do an AND on Google Scholar alerts?
In Google Scholar, you can create an alert, such as "neural networks", which will inform you any time there is an article related to "neural networks". However, suppose I am interested in neural ...
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Can you obtain detailed date information on publications when using Google Scholar?
My question is related to Google Scholar. I know that I can search articles by specified year or year range, but is it possible to obtain detailed dates of publication/indexing in Google Scholar? If ...
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Finding papers that report results on a dataset
I am doing a literature study, and I would like to identify published research papers that report results on Reuters dataset RCV1-v2 (as comprehensively as could possibly be expected). The results ...
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Find articles that have certain keywords in supplementary material
I currently use Scopus or ISI Web of Science when looking for articles containing certain keywords in title or abstract, etc. But now I need to find articles that have certain keywords in the ...
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Literature search methodology for non-academics?
I moved straight into the professional world after my bachelor's degree, and have no experience with formal research of any sort. Recently, however, my university has granted alumni access to a large ...
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Finding papers that acknowledge a specific author
Is there any way to find all papers that acknowledge a specific author? (i.e., the author is mentioned in the acknowledgement section)
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How to search for one phrase in the title and a different phrase in the body of the paper in a single Google Scholar search?
Google Scholar is a very good source of knowledge especially with its advanced search, but the options in the advanced search is either search in the title or in the whole paper. How can I search for ...
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Exploring something completely new, even silly. [duplicate]
As it were, I finally dreamed up a direction to explore and write something about, but just like every other time, I noticed someone senior has written has already explored the line of thought. In ...
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Term for reverse lookup of concepts
Suppose I have envisioned a concept that I am fairly certain has been explored before. I can describe its nature and its characteristics, but I do not know the formal name of the concept, nor its ...
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Google Scholar: how to exclude some countries from the search?
I use the google scholar alert system which sends me new studies made on a specific saved search. I'm looking for a way to exclude research conducted in some countries (or to only include some ...
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Resources of APIs for automated paper citation aggregation
I'm looking to do an extensive literature search.
I would like to start with about half a dozen or so survey papers in the field, and look at their bibliography. Then, I would like to go through each ...
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How to find out who funded a study / research?
It has been proven that the source of funding can have an influence on the results of a research (funding bias, well documented here and here).
When we check for pieces of research, for example ...
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How to export Google Scholar keyword search results to Excel? [closed]
I am looking for a reputable free tool to export results of a keyword search on Google Scholar to Microsoft Word or Excel.
I am in the process of assembling a reading list for systematic literature ...
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How you choose the literature you read (Advice) [duplicate]
As new researcher and having started my PhD studies less than one month, I would like someone experienced to give me some advice. As researcher, which are your habits concerning research papers you ...
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How to identify top researchers and landmark papers in a field? [closed]
I am currently a student doing research in Neuroscience, and as you can imagine it is a pretty big field. I am trying to better familiarize myself with my own subfield and other fields such stem cell ...
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What are some tools to effectively synthesize information from research?
Does anyone know any good, effective tool that people use to synthesize large amount of information from research?
By "tool" I am referring to softwares or practices that effective researchers use to:...
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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 is a research direction determined between a graduate student and their advisor?
My question applies to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math disciplines (STEM).
Q: By what process does a graduate student determine his or her research direction?
(Assume that the graduate ...
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How to export the reference list for a given paper using Google Scholar?
Google Scholar allows you to do forward search via cited by - that is, you can get a list of references that cite a given reference. Is there any way to do backward search, i.e. get a list of ...
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Is it normal to be suspicious of a really interesting finding but in an obscure journal and/or by authors from unknown universities
EDIT Since there are some misunderstandings regarding my question I'll try to rephrase, and also avoid posting questions late at night when I am really tired :)
A typical part of my work as a ...
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