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Citation Analysis: Search

Searching Tips on author name formats

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Databases differ in the way they index authors' names. You may need to experiment to get the best results.
Some examples to try:

  1.   lastname only- anderson
  2.   lastname, firstname- anderson, thomas
  3.   lastname, firstinitial- anderson, t
  4.   lastname, first & middle initials- anderson, tr
  5.   "lastname firstname"-"anderson thomas"
  6.   "firstname lastname"-"thomas anderson"
Note:
Citation Searching = an index is available in a given electronic resource for words extracted from the cited references
Citation Rummaging = no index is available in a given electronic resource for words extracted from the cited reference