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How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 3. advanced searching, MeSH and My NCBI

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, March 2014
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Title
How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 3. advanced searching, MeSH and My NCBI
Published in
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, March 2014
DOI 10.1177/1357633x13519036
Pubmed ID
Authors

Farhad Fatehi, Leonard C Gray, Richard Wootton

Abstract

Although the basic PubMed search is often helpful, the results may sometimes be non-specific. For more control over the search process you can use the Advanced Search Builder interface. This allows a targeted search in specific fields, with the convenience of being able to select the intended search field from a list. It also provides a history of your previous searches. The search history is useful to develop a complex search query by combining several previous searches using Boolean operators. For indexing the articles in MEDLINE, the NLM uses a controlled vocabulary system called MeSH. This standardised vocabulary solves the problem of authors, researchers and librarians who may use different terms for the same concept. To be efficient in a PubMed search, you should start by identifying the most appropriate MeSH terms and use them in your search where possible. My NCBI is a personal workspace facility available through PubMed and makes it possible to customise the PubMed interface. It provides various capabilities that can enhance your search performance.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Canada 2 2%
Italy 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Unknown 81 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Librarian 11 12%
Student > Master 11 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 12%
Researcher 8 9%
Other 19 21%
Unknown 16 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 18 20%
Unknown 23 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2023.
All research outputs
#6,938,510
of 22,749,166 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
#396
of 1,152 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,359
of 220,763 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
#4
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,749,166 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,152 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.