How to find articles worth reading?

There are three main sources that make finding a good and authentic paper feasible, which are listed below:

1. Using the bibliographic databases:

The bibliographic database is a source of information related to all the contents existing on the internet or libraries. These bases provide information like the titles of the articles, the name of the authors, and generally all the information related to the papers, books, etc. As can be induced, these bases only provide the information about the papers, and the researchers cannot access the whole text of the papers. The major property of the bibliographic databases is that they are not limited to the specific publications. Below the names of some popular sites are listed:

1. Web of Science which contains the information about ISI papers, includes more than 20000 authentic publications (1).
2.  Scopus provides information of more than 34000 publications (2).
3. Google Scholar is one of the sources which is extensive of its kind, and it can be declared that it includes the information of all the authentic papers. Even when the whole text of an article has been published somewhere on the net, this site introduces it to the researchers. And this is a very good characteristic.
4. Crossref.org is also an extensive resource that covers all the papers with DOC indication (almost 60 million articles) which can be a good research engine.

Therefore, through a bibliographic database, you can find the papers you are looking for among almost all of the authentic and reliable articles. But, these resources possess two negative characteristics when used by the university students as follows:

1. The first negative point is that these sites are not accessible for the students. In fact, it is the universities’ duty to make these sites accessible to students, since sometimes the cost of subscription is too high for the individual university students. However, there are various sites in the country that make these recourses accessible for people by getting lower costs.
2. The second one is that the other good sites may be ignored by the students. In spite of covering most of the resources, these sites may not include some good publishers. Therefore, it should be noticed that we should not limit our searches to these sites.

2. Using the publishers’ sites

All of the authentic publishers have their own sites and databases. These sites possess good searching systems, and sometimes their searching systems have better facilities than a bibliographic database.

Identifying the publications related to your major

If you identify these kinds of publications, you can directly, search through the papers of those publications.  You may suppose that all of these publications belong to the publishers, and if you search through the publishers’ sites, you have already searched through the publications. It is true, but you can save time by searching through the publications rather than publishers’ sites. Let us give you an example.

For example: If you search the word “Alzheimer” in Science Direct, there will come up more than 180000 results. But, if You search the same word in the publication of “Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery” existing in Science Direct, you will get only about 400 results which are more related. Therefore, if you identify the publication related to your major, you can find good articles more easily and quickly.

References:

1. https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-science/web-science-form/web-science-core-collection/.
2. https://www.biochem.mpg.de/5522945/elsevier_scopus_content_coverage_guide.pdf.

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