Check out if your article is cited – through Google Scholar and PubMed

Check out if your article is cited – through Google Scholar and PubMed

Have you written an article and wondered who else has cited it? There are two resources through which you can check. Google Scholar. Type in your name and for any article you have published (and is available somewhere on the net), just below the reference details, you will get a link - "Cited by 4" (the number will be actual number of citations). Click the link and you will see the references of the articles that have cited yours. A note of caution - you will find duplicates for various reasons, so you will have to manually remove those PubMed.…
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F1000 – Open Access Source for Posters – Biology & Medicine

F1000 – Open Access Source for Posters – Biology & Medicine

F1000 - Open Access Source for Posters - Biology & Medicine  We have all seen posters in conferences where we come away with ideas, take home messages and sometimes exciting discoveries. All of us agree that conference posters (and papers) are very important sources of information. And yet, they as good as disappear once the conference is over. This - unless the authors publish them as papers in journals, or the conference organizers put up all information in a website. Both situations do not happen as often as we'd like them to. F1000 Posters appears to be "the answer" to…
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Searching PubMed using MeSH – made easy

Searching PubMed using MeSH – made easy

PubMed has made searching easier for you. Here is a simple tip. If you wish to do a search for Bisphosphonates in Osteoporosis, go to PubMed and click "MeSH database" on the lower right side In this MeSH database page Type Bisphosphonates in the Search box and click Search You will get a result Diphosphonates (a synonym). Click "Add to search builder" (on the right side of the page) The term Diphosphonates[Mesh] appears in the search builder box above Next - in the Main search box, replace Bisphosphonates with Osteoporosis and click Search You will get six terms; check the…
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