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Citation searching on POP

Select the Author impact tab to start the search. Then enter the author's name. The order does not matter, smeaton af will retrieve the same results as af smeaton. Remember an author may not always use the same initials so you may also want to try a smeaton.

pop author tab

pop subject choices

 

You can narrow your search by selecting a specific subject area.

 

pop search buttonsLookup will use the POP local cache. This means that it doesn't do a fresh search of Google Scholar.

Lookup direct will send the search directly to Google Scholar.

Once you have made your selections the results for the selected papers will be displayed in the results box.

pop results summary box

 

 

 

The total number of papers retrieved using the search criteria entered is displayed beside the Papers: heading. For this sample search we have 393.

pop list of retrieved papers

pop check buttons

 

In many cases the results will contains papers which are not written by the intended author, but just by someone with a similar name. You should check the results and select the relevant items by clicking in the box beside the entry, then using the check buttons to the right of the screen.

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My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the NDLR adapted by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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