If you are completing a manuscript and are thinking about where to submit it for publication, you may find the tool, JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator, to be very helpful. JANE is a free website which can help identify journals for publication based on the subject about which you have written. In addition, JANE can find relevant articles that you can cite in your paper. If you enter the title and/or abstract in the search box, you have the option to click on “Find journals,” “Find authors,” or “Find articles.” Your document will be compared to millions of articles in MEDLINE to extract the most relevant matching journals, authors or articles.
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Phrase Searching in PubMed
When searching for a multiple word concept in PubMed, you will often get significantly different numbers of results if you do not use quotation marks around the terms as compared to using quotation marks. Here is an example:
lymph node dissection – 40,235
“lymph node dissection” – 10,124
When you search for a concept without quotation marks, you will retrieve records which contain synonyms for the terms you entered as well as vocabulary (MeSH) terms for the concept. For lymph node dissection, records with the term lymph node excision will be returned, as well as those appended with the MeSH term, lymph node excision.
Fewer records will be retrieved with “lymph node dissection” since all results must contain this exact phrase.
Searching PsycINFO on Ovid
Watch a brief video on how to use the Advanced Search option when searching the PsycINFO database via the Ovid platform. This database contains the records from Psychological Abstracts.
Included is a description of the use and value of subject headings to build a precise search. Term hierarchy is demonstrated showing Broader Terms, Narrower Terms and Related Terms. There also is an explanation of the “Focus” option to retrieve articles where the term is a major concept. The video is under four minutes long.
Update 10/2013: This video is no longer available. Please contact the Reference Team via asklibrarian@mskcc.org or 212.639.7439 for help with this resource.