SEARCH TIP |
DESCRIPTION |
EXAMPLES |
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Truncation Use for finding alternative endings to a word |
The asterisk (*) replaces letters at the end of a word |
develop* |
Wildcard Use for finding alternative spellings of a word |
The question mark (?) replaces a single letter anywhere in a word |
organi?ation |
Plurals and possessives |
The singular form of a word finds plural and possessive forms of most words |
carbon baby |
Hyphenated words |
The hyphenated form finds both hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms Non-hyphenated form is treated as separate words
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video-game video game full-time OR fulltime |
Phrases If you search for two or more words in Scopus, and do not specify with the use of either double quotation marks (loose phrase) or curly brackets (exact phrase), Scopus automatically puts AND between them. Therefore, the words in the phrase may not be searched together |
1. Loose phrases in double quotation marks “ A loose search for the phrase, i.e. words must be together but allowing for the use of truncation, wildcard and lemmatization The exact phrase is searched, but will not allow use of truncation, wildcard or retrieving alternative spelling of word |
“cognitive behaviour therapy”
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Boolean Operators: OR, AND, AND NOT Use Boolean operators to combine your search ORDER OF PRECEDENCE-Searches with multiple operators are processed in the following order: OR, AND, AND NOT |
OR
AND
AND NOT |
liver OR cirrhosis
lung AND NOT cancer |
Nesting – (…) |
Group similar words together using brackets |
(college OR university) AND athletics |
Proximity Operators - W/n, Pre/n Use proximity operators to find words within a certain distance from each other Pre/n specifies a word order, W/n does not |
W/n - indicates distance between words, but not the order |
journal W/2 publishing |
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