If the results more than 2000, how can we limit them, particularly when we conduct systematic reviews as the exclusion of articles will take long time till we reach to the most relevant studies.
Using the publication year filter is the first idea that springs to mind. Doing the search for seperate years involves more work of course, but it may get the results numbers
Adding several keywords using boolean quantifiers helps narrow your topic down ... such as:
This & that & not that
Thanks. I have searched and found that Google scholar firstly give you the most relevant results and after a short time, the rest of the pages will give you irrelevant results which can be excluded easily.
you might need to use search characters:
AND : to search 2 words at the same time
NOT, -, AND NOT : to omit and remove results which contained a special word
OR : to show word 1 or word 2 in search results
" " : to search exact words in the "" and not any thing different
Search results (amount) of Rest AND Car are different from the results of "Rest Car" and different from results of Rest Car, if you learn to mix these search phrases, and use other ones like time period and etc, you will be able to find exactly what you want and decrease the amount of results...
Google this: silver antimicrobial effects comparison to gold
and compare number of the results with this: silver AND "antimicrobial effects" AND gold
then compare number of the results with this: silver AND "antimicrobial effects" AND gold AND nanoparticles -plant
I am also facing this issue while doing systematic review, the search strategy has been finalized and applied on three databases but google scholar is showing more than 1500 results, but we can only get unto 1000 results. How do I report the remaining in PRISMA.
If I add few more key words, it is exceeding limit of words endnote accepted by scholar
Kindly guide
Here is the link to download Harzings
https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish
It is the better way to explore, classify and analyse Google Scholar results
https://harzing-s-publish-or-perish.software.informer.com/
Harzing’s Publish or Perish is intended for users involved in academic jobs. The idea behind the program is to help them demonstrate the impact of their research, in case they are applying for new posts. However, what it does specifically is to retrieve citations from Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Crossref, Web of Science and Scopus which are then processed according to various types of metrics that enable to assess their impact.
you can use symbols and connectors to refine the search results.
- + to include more keywords; - to remove keywords, AND, OR, "use inverted commas" to use the phrase as mandatory in the results. But other sites such as mesh terms in pubmed would also help to find the required results.
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