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Find an Expert in a Specific Area of Research?
TOPIC: Researchers who have written extensively on a particular subject or those who have been cited by other scientists are often asked to act as experts in that field of research. To find an expert, it is important to do a comprehensive search on the topic of interest. On Dialog you can search up to 60 databases at once.
For this example we'll start the search in the OneSearch® Engineering category (ENG). We're looking for an expert in the area of simulations using petrinets. Once we find an expert, we can use SciSearch®: A Cited Reference Database (File 34) to get the author's address.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN ENG
SELECT SIMULATION AND (PETRI(W)(NET OR NETS OR NETWORK?) OR PETRINET?)
SELECT S1/2007:2008
Check the Author field in the Ranked list
BEGIN 34
VISUAL EXPAND AU=BADOUEL ERIC
TYPE S1/2/1
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN ENG, the OneSearch category that contains databases with technical engineering information. |
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2. SELECT keywords for the topic. Note the number of different ways we will search petrinet.
Avoid truncation on very short (i.e., three-letter) words like "net."
Notice the use of parentheses for synonyms for "net" and "petrinet."
3. Because we are going to analyze the hits, narrow the retrieval under the assumption that the number of authors involved in the last couple of years is of more importance than the last thirty or so years.
4. From the Set Links pane, click Set 2 (S2) > Tasks > Rank. |
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5. Check the Author (AU) field and click OK. |
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Review the list of authors and identify the one you are interested in.
Often, you will select the author with the most "hits." In this example we are choosing a particular author.
Note the spelling and punctuation; however, it may be different in File 34 that we will search next. |
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5. BEGIN File 34, SciSearch: a Cited Reference Database.
6. VISUAL EXPAND the author name (AU=) to see the author from the RANKed list above.
Notice that initials rather than first names are used in this database and no punctuation.
7. Check the appropriate author's name and click Select. |
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8. TYPE a record from S1 in Format 2 to find the author's address.
Note that the address appears for the first author. |
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