Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Tag: scopus

Are you looking to sharpen your research, writing, or clinical skills? We offer a variety of free online classes to help you get ahead. Taking a library class can significantly improve your research skills, helping you master advanced database searching and use tools that streamline your workflow. You'll also enhance your writing by efficiently managing citations and references, allowing you to focus more on your content. For those in clinical fields, these classes offer valuable insights into staying up-to-date with evidence-based resources, ultimately helping you locate the best clinical literature. Plus, our expert librarians are available to offer tailored support and guidance during each session. 

Here’s a glimpse of the upcoming classes you can sign up for: 

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Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, endnote, copyright, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

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Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to learn some new skills or approaches to your research? Check out our class schedule! We offer a variety of online classes related to database searching, systematic reviews, writing abstracts, publishing, citation management, research impact, and more. To find class details, dates, and registration information Click here. 

Let us help you work smarter, not harder!

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Categories: Classes, Databases

Tags: publishing, pubmed, scopus, cinahl, endnote, zotero, abstracts, searching

As of March 1, an author search for "John Smith" yields 818 results in Scopus. The first 30 authors in this search have over 7,300 articles combined. ORCID (pronounced ORKID or ORK ID) is a great solution for differentiating authors and connecting them to all of their own research.  As a globally supported non-profit organization, it maintains a registry of unique and persistent identifiers for authors that may be used across databases and other places where research is found.

All you need to do is register and it only takes 30 seconds! You can then link your ID to other identifiers such as those found in Scopus, Duke Directory and Scholars@Duke, and LinkedIn. Keep in mind…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: ORCID, Scholars@Duke, scopus

For every job there is just the right tool.  While most people are familiar with PubMed, we also provide access to many other databases -- from specialty to general -- that might better fill your information searching needs.

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: embase, scopus, web of science

The h-index is an author-level metric, originally proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch in 2005, to simultaneously measure productivity (number of papers published) and citation impact (number of times a paper is cited). If you’re interested, you can read Hirsch’s original proposal for the h-index here.

For a particular scholar, their h-index is the number of h published papers where each paper has been cited at least h times. For example, if Dr. Jane Doe has an h-index of 12, then she has published 12 papers that have each been cited at least 12 times.  The h-index attempts to measure both the productivity and the apparent scientific impact of…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: h-index, scopus, impact, metrics