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Apologies for what could be perceived as a rather "meta" question. I know there's some great people who frequent this site and some opinions on the following would be really useful. I was wondering, when searching the literature, is there any benefit to using the various citation databases simultaneously? For instance, I find Google scholar to be impeccable at indexing journals and linking citations. In a few isolated examples, I've found it far more comprehensive than the competition for viewing citations. How do you go about searching for papers, and what tips could you give? |
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Google scholar is always my first stop. 99% of the time it has what I'm looking for. If that doesn't work, I usually try looking on one of the authors' websites. Once or twice I've had to go to my university library to find something in a bound journal (this has only happened for psychology journals from the 60s and 70s). |
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There's an open citation database at Mendeley, which gives better information on article usage than Google. In addition to citations, it also takes the number of readers into account, as well as related tags. The other useful thing is that it shows papers related to the current paper, so you can drill down into a specific subject really quickly.
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