PubMed Tips & Tricks: More Tips

Focus your results by using filters. You can filter by a variety aspects:

• Publication date​
• Language
• Age group
• Sex
• Animal vs human studies
• Article type (eg, review, case report)
• Search field (eg, title/abstract)
• & more!

1. Identify one really good article
2. Click on “similar articles” underneath  the citation

• Lastname initials
  • search: bertozzi sm

• Can search for full author name (for citations 2002 and later) if available in the article.
  • search:  stefano m bertozzi

• However, you will NOT retrieve pre-2002 articles when doing a full author name search.

My NCBI allows you to create a login where you can:

• Save your search strategy.
• Set up a search alert, so that when new articles meet your search, you are notified.
• Save selected articles and organize them into collections.
• Set preferences, such as highlighting search terms and changing the results display to default to abstract view.

Use the Single Citation Matcher to look for a specific article. Fill in a few of the elements of the citation that you know (eg, year, volume, page number, and some title words).