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Click here for a video tutorial demonstrating how to link Google Scholar directly to the UNI catalog.
Google Scholar ranks your results in part based on the number of times an article has been cited. Since it takes a while for even the best research articles to accumulate a large number of citations, this means that Google Scholar will tend to display older research.
To adjust your results so that you can view results from a particular year, or so you can view the most recent research. use one of the date options found on the left-hand side of the page: "custom range" or "sort by date."
It is possible to use the command intitle: in a standard Google Scholar search field to limit certain words to the title, while still allowing other words to appear anywhere in the article. Be sure that the term or phrase (which should be typed in quotes) is entered immediately to the right of the colon in intitle:
This is a useful strategy if Google Scholar is bringing back results that are not very relevant. If your keyword is in the title of the article, rather than being off-handedly mentioned once in the entire text, it is more likely to be relevant to your research question.
Example 1 - a search for an article that contains the phrase "climate change" in the title and also contains the words "Iowa" and "flooding" somewhere else in the article:
Example 2 - a search for an article that contains both the phrase "climate change" and the word "drought" somewhere in the title, as well as the word "Africa" somewhere in the article:
Google Scholar provides a powerful way to search articles that have cited your article. This is a useful strategy in situations when you have found one or two relevant articles, but you are struggling to find more. Look at who's citing your article! They are likely engaged in scholarly conversation about similar topics.
Enter the title of a favorite article into Google Scholar, then click on the "Cited by" button underneath the entry.
Be sure to check the Search within citing articles box.
Enter a concept and search all of the citing articles for that word.
