The document discusses tips for improving searches in databases. It provides strategies for developing effective search methods, such as understanding what is known versus unknown, choosing the right database and search terms, using advanced search techniques like Boolean operators and truncation, and evaluating search results. It also examines ways to assess the quality and impact of academic papers and journals, such as the Impact Factor, h-index, altmetrics and Journal Citation Reports.

1. Improving our searches
Alexandre López-Borrull
Estudis Informació i Comunicació
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
19 Octubre 2015

2. Summary
1- Searching in Databases. Some Tips
2- How can we know the quality of
papers and journals? Impact Factor,
Altmetrics and Journal Citation Reports

3. Searching in Databases. Some Tips
Databases are created for providing
more order

4. Searching in Databases. Some Tips
Searching in a database is
something natural

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Knowing the fields is a crucial point

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Noise is a problem...

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...Silence is worst!

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Search Strategy.
1. What do I know from what I do not know

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Search Strategy.
2. Chosing the right database

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Search Strategy.
3. Chosing the right Search

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Search Strategy.
4. Doing the Search

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Search Strategy.
5. Evaluating Results

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Search Strategy.
6. Saving Results!

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Use the Advanced Search

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Use the Boolean Operators

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Use other Operators. Truncation

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Use other Operators. Proximity

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Use other Operators. Exacte phrase

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Use Chronological Limits

20. Impact Factor

21. Knowing the quality of papers and journals
Relations among article are like an sp orbital

22. Knowing the quality of papers and journals
Eugene Garfield, creator of the Impact Factor

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Impact Factor
2008 impact factor = A/B.
where:
A = the number of times that all items published in that journal in 2006 and
2007 were cited by indexed publications during 2008.
B = the total number of "citable items" published by that journal in 2006 and
2007. ("Citable items" for this calculation are usually articles, reviews,
proceedings, or notes; not editorials or letters to the editor).
(Note that 2008 impact factors are actually published in 2009; they cannot be
calculated until all of the 2008 publications have been processed by the indexing
agency.)

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Impact Factor

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Citations of an article

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Critiques to Impact Factor

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h-Index

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Altmetrics

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PLOS Journals

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PLOS Journals

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PLOS Journals

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PLOS Journals

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Journal Citation Reports

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Journal Citation Reports