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Identifying the key articles

Searching and using databasese effectively

  • Understand your topic and define your search terms - what's in scope

  • Select keywords from you topic - words that will take you to the bodies of literature you are engaging with

  • Create your search strategy - knowing when to add more alternative terms (OR) or more limiting words (AND) 

  • Select an appropriate database - register & set up alerts

  • Look at suggested articles, articles with similar subject headings, by the same author, articles that are referenced, articles that cite

  • Evaluate your resources 

  • Repeat

High impact/prestigious journals in Business

Limiting results to Scimago Q1 journals (if required)

There is no easy answer.

1. Use the VLOOKUP function in excel to match an exported list of search results (in csv format) with a list of Q1 journal titles copied into excel. 

2. Use an add on to Google Chrome such as excitation, this will identify Q1 journals within your Google Scholar results

3. Copy a list of issn numbers from Scimago of Q1 journals & search within this range across your favourite databases. 

Subjects: Business / Advertising, marketing and public relations, Business / General business, Business / Management and human resources
Tags: bibliographic management, bsn503, business journals, carma, citation tracking, data analysis, literature review, research, research effectiveness, researcher impact, scholarly publishing, stata