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Medical Laboratory Science

Additional Ways to find articles

Change your search terms

  • Figure out the terms that the database uses for your concepts by seeing the subject headings or MeSH terms found in the article records of relevant results.

 

  • If a database has a thesaurus (Subject Headings, MeSH terms), you can browse it for subject headings, see the scope note or definition of a subject heading, and see related terms that you might use. 

 

Bibliographies

  • When you identify an article that is useful, check the bibliography of the article to find additional resources.

 

  • Once you find an article(s), you can check to see if the library provides access by searching for the title of the article in Start Your Research. Be sure to place quotations around the title. Another option is to search for the journal title in the Journals/Periodicals list.

 

  • The bibliography in Systematic Review articles and Dissertations and Theses are also great resources for finding additional research articles and books.

Citation Analysis

Citation Analysis involves finding articles that have cited an article of interest.  There are a multiple ways to do this on the library website including using the following databases:

1. Google Scholar

2. Web of Science

3. Scopus

 

Citation Analysis using Google Scholar

1. Access Google Scholar on the Databases page.

2.  Search for the title of the original article (or do a keyword search).

3.  On the results page, click the "Cited by" link underneath the description of the article(s).

Screenshot of Google Scholar article search with the "Cited by" link highlighted.

Citation Analysis using Web of Science

1.  Access the database Web of Science on the Databases page.

2.  Do a title search for the article title (you can also do a topic search if you don't have a specific article identified).

3. On the results page, click the Citations link to retrieve a list of articles that have cited the original article.

Pro Tip: Sort by Citations: highest

Results page in the database Web of Science. The results are sorted by Citations highest. The number of citations for each article are highlighted.

 

 

Citation Analysis using Scopus

 

1. Access the database Scopus on the Databases page.

2.You can search for an article title or you can do a keyword search if you don't have a specific article identified (example pictured below).

3.  On the results page, click the Citations link to retrieve a list of articles that have cited the original article.

Pro Tip: Sort by Citations: highest

Screenshot of Scopus search page with a keyword search typed in the search box. The search results are displayed and the citation counts for each article in the results list are hightlighted.

 

 

Systematic Reviews

  • Systematic Reviews are articles that review multiple research studies on a specific treatment.

 

  • Search for a systematic review on a treatment/intervention/comparison to find research studies. 

 

  • Databases that allow you to limit your search results to systematic reviews include: