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Quick guide to searching
Search strategy check list (bibliographic databases)
- Explore freely and collect keywords from many sources
- Define your research question
- Identify core concepts, put on different rows connected with AND
- Find synonyms and alternative spelling, connect with OR (within rows)
- Remember to use truncation * and ”phrase search”
- Too many results: use more specific search terms or search in the title field
- Too few results: add more synonyms or broaden your topic
- Are there any (new) reviews so that you can get a good overview of the subject?
- Look through reference lists in good sources
- Try “View Related Records” (WoS) or “Related articles” (Google Scholar)
- Try several search tools, you will find different things!