NEU 110: Scientific logic and communication

If you find a highly relevant paper and want to find more recent studies on its topic or papers that are closely related, here are two methods:

A. Finding articles that cite a highly relevant paper

To find the most comprehensive list of citing articles, use Google Scholar:

1. Set up Get it at UC links in Google Scholar. Once you set this up, it will be persistent and you can skip this step.
   To make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to: Open Google Scholar and click on the three-bar menu in the upper-left corner.
   In the menu that appears click Settings, then click Library Links in the left-hand menu.
   Once in Library Links, enter the word "berkeley" and click the search icon.
   In the list of options that appears, check the boxes for
   • Open WorldCat - Library Search
   • University of California Berkeley - Get it at UC
   • University of California Berkeley - ProQuest FullText
   • Be sure to click Save. Now a Get it at UC link will appear next to every result.
   
2. Copy the article title from PubMed or from the article itself
3. Paste the title between double quotes in the Google Scholar search box, and click the search icon. (This instructs GS to search the title as an exact string, so make sure there are no extra spaces or characters.) You should see a small number of results -- probably one.
4. Click the Cited by link at the bottom of the article record to see a list of the articles that have cited this highly relevant article. Some of the citing articles may also be relevant, and they will all be more recent than the initial article. Click the Create alert envelope icon in the left-hand menu of the page displaying the citing papers to be notified of any new papers that cite the initial paper.

B. Similar or related articles

1. In PubMed, most article records include a link to a list of similar articles. These articles are automatically matched by keywords, Medical Subject Headings, and references. Some of the similar articles may be older than the initial article, and some may be more recent than the initial article.
   
2. In Google Scholar, most article records include a link to a list of related articles. These articles are automatically matched by Google's algorithm. Again, some of the related articles may be older than the initial article.