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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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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't doing any relevant research at that…
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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 bioinformatician/data analyst is to check the relevance…
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How do I pick good keywords for literature alerts?

F'x has made a very informative post here about staying up to date with current research. My question concerns the "publication alert" part of it. To be clear: I am asking about setting up an online service, such NCBI PubMed, to send you a…
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Co-authorship graph

I am currently building a reading list targeted towards a certain list of 5-10 authors. They all work under the umbrella of wireless communications (separated by their own subfields), and I would like to efficiently go through their recent works. To…
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when should I stop searching the literature?

I'm seaarching the literature at the moment to write a literature review but I don't know when should I stop searching and start writing?
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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 to present only?
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How to build a list of seminal papers in a field?

This question is similar to this one, but focused on papers rather than on authors. Does anybody know of a systematic way to build a list of the most cited and/or influential papers in a discipline? I've tried to use Google Scholar, but I was not…
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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 should preferably be comparable (i.e. use the exact…
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What academic search engines support searching in full text?

I am a researcher in the energy field. I am trying to search for academic publications without the keyword optim* (where * represents a wildcard) not only in the abstract and title, but also in full text. The goal is to filter out any study that…
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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.uk to your search string to only get results…
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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 post focused on how to stay up-to-date on a…
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Paper Suggestion/Recommendation Tools

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 Mendeley Suggest but it does not seem to work…
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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 most related publications for a batch of…
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How to make sure that something hasn't been done in the literature and can be studied by me

Before starting a new research project/paper, one needs to make sure that this project is new and nobody has done it. I'm still not confident about whether sth really hasn't been done in the literature by doing the following search: 1.google…
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Is it possible to retrieve easily all the Nature papers featured the cover since 1950?

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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