Have you recently been published in a journal? Congratulations! Here are some best practices to track your publications and simplify the process. Depending on your needs, we have tips for conducting searches you can utilize as you track publications in PubMed and SCOPUS.
For a basic author search, you will need:
For a more advanced search, you may want to include:
Name Ambiguity
Inconsistent naming conventions can complicate an author search.
For an institution search, you will need:
You can search our databases a few ways: by looking for the name of a specific author, by searching a group of authors, or by looking up the institution.
Things to consider:
Naming conventions can vary across different publications. Both authors and institutions use different forms of names (e.g., J Smith, JE Smith) so it is important to account for this in your searching. If you know the author ID, that is a great way to avoid this challenge in tracking publications.
Using OR and AND
Parentheses ( )
Quotation Marks " "