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What are some good search engines to do scientific research?

In addition to ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, what are popular academic databases/search engines for academic research papers and review articles?

  • Specifically this question is directed at multidisciplinary databases / search engines, e.g. not something that indexes papers in select fields (e.g. PubMed for example is almost purely for medical research).There is an exhaustive list for example at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines - among the multidisciplinary titles there and others as well, which tend to be preferred among researchers?

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    ScienceDirect is not a search engine - it is only a publisher platform for the publisher Elsevier's journals and books. They are generally of high quality, but are only a small section of the literature and all from one source. If you are trying to research health and medical topics, I suggest that you try PubMed, which is free and includes most journals.

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A multi-disciplinary subscription database, which is of high quality, is the Web of Science.  What is crucial about WoS is that it picks out the top quality journals in each subject field it covers.  The publisher of the database has done the work to discover which journals matter most in every field, and slices off just that top set of journals to index.  So you know that the mainstream of each discipline is well covered.  Yet at the same time, the database covers all the major fields in academia.  You can search on the sciences, the social sciences, the arts and humanities, or all three.  So that you are not overwhelmed with results, experiment with using "title" or "topic" to search on, and pick the databases within WoS you want to search on, depending on the type of information you need.  The other BIG thing that WoS does is enable you to search on its citation indexes.  Suppose you find a great article that was published in 2004 and you want to know what work has picked up on that topic since 2004.  Go to "Cited Reference search" and input the most distinctive parts of the reference--you don't need everything, usually just the author's name.  Then the system pulls up for you all the articles in its databases that have cited your 2004 article since then.  It's a really cool way to follow a research thread to the present, without even having to worry about what search term(s) are best.

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Victor Kalimuthu

Hi there, for quantitative science the following one is a pretty good solution: https://www.scientillion.com/ . In contrast to many other database search engines which only search abstracts it allows to perform real full-text searches on articles from Physics and Medicine.The authors claim that it will be extended to further disciplines in future but at the moment it performs really well for physics, computer science and medicine. Other disciplines are still missing but hopefully follow.

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