Literature Search

Somkiat AsawaphureekornM.D., M.Sc. (Clinical Epidemiology)

Scopus

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Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Srinagarind Hospital

Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

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Scopus

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Scopus Document Search

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Rules for Search Terms 1

• General rules Not case sensitive Entering singular nouns will also search for plural

nouns and possessives (with some exceptions) Search for Greek alphabet letters using α OR alpha, β OR beta

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Rules for Search Terms 2

• Phrase search Multiple words with spaces will be AND together Use “ ” or { } to force a phrase search

• Double quotes will search for fuzzy phrases• Singular and plurals (with some exceptions)• Symbols are ignored• Wildcards can be used

– e.g., “heart-attack” will search for heart-attack, heart attack, heart attacks, and so on.

• Curly brackets will search for the specified phrase• Symbols can be used

– e.g., {heart-attack} will only search for heart-attack

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Rules for Search Terms 3

• Wildcards * replaces any number of characters

• toxi* will search for toxin, toxic, toxicity, toxicology, etc. ? replaces only one character

• sawt??th will search for sawtooth and sawteeth

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Rules for Search Terms 4

• Logical operators “AND” searches for articles containing both words “OR” searches for articles containing either or both

words “AND NOT” searches for articles that do not contain

the following word• e.g., tumor AND NOT malignant

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Rules for Search Terms 5

• Proximity operators “W/n” restricts to n words between the two words

• The word order is not set• e.g., pain W/5 morphine

“PRE/n” restricts to n words between the two words• The word order is as set • e.g., newborn PRE/3 screening

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Rules for Search Terms 6

• Operator priority order 1. OR 2. W/n or PRE/n 3. AND 4. AND NOT

• Use parentheses to change the priority order

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Phrase and Proximity Search

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• Search term: selective (laser) trabeculoplasty

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Exact Phrase Search

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• Search term: “ranked-segment” in title

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Conference Proceedings

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Knowledge & Wisdom

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

The Task (1785) by

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

The Task (1785) byWilliam Cowper (1731 - 1800)

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