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Recommendations based on an exhaustive comparative analysis of literature search engines Akhilesh Bajpai, Sravanthi Davuluri and Acharya KK* (*Correspondence: kshitish@ibab.ac.in) Search engines recommended for bio-literature for different types of needs
(based on our research work: see http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2101/version/3)

Categories of resources

Post-analysis categorization
- Literature search
Post-survey categorization
- Features validated in most cases
- Features not validated
Simple lists
Preliminary lists

CLICK ON YOUR NEED:

Most of the relevant citations (better recall)

e.g., while writing review OR reviewing literature as part of a research project etc.

Minimal unwanted hits (better precision)

e.g., to collect & read some of the important articles relevant to a topic OR to get an idea of
current research on a specific topic.

Full-text searches for articles with terms of your interest in areas other than the citations
(i.e., not present in title, abstract, author, journal or affiliation fields)

e.g., to find out the usage frequency of software or equipment and/or to scan the methods
or other sections of the articles

Most preferred option
-HighWire Press
-Google Scholar
Other suggested options
-Scirus
-PubMed Central

Find experts in a specific area of interest

e.g., to find out authors with maximum publications in a specific area of research

Most preferred option
-GoPubMed
Other suggested options
-BioAsk
-eTBLAST
-PubFocus

Year-wise trend in publications on a specific topic

Most preferred option
-GoPubMed
Other suggested options
-BioAsk
-eTBLAST
-PubFocus

Publication-trends across countries/cities

-GoPubMed
-PubFocus

Collaborative trends among authors

-GoPubMed

Get literature integrated from multiple resources

-Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio)

Frequency of citations

-Google Scholar

Track citations

-HighWire Press

Patent search

-Most of the tools have this option except -askMEDLINE ,
-EBIMed , Brij.in & -HighWire Press

Group citations based on important contents

e.g., to collect & read some of the articles relevant to a topic like cancer, and to get only those
related drugs/genes among all hits

Most preferred option
-GoPubMed
Other suggested options
-ClusterMed

Broad domain-specific search

e.g., to collect & read some of the articles relevant to a topic specific to Computational
biology, Economic science, Medical science, etc.

Most preferred option
-Google Scholar
Other suggested options
-Scopus (paid tool)
-PubMed

To search for a group of entities

e.g., to search for all the genes reported in context of cervical cancer, to study p53 in context of all diseases/cell types

-Quertle

Tools specialized for clinical activities
Details

-CancerLit
-CAMbase
-CENTRAL
-CINAHL

Search by author(s)

Most preferred option
-PubMed
-Scopus (paid tool)
Other suggested options
-Google Scholar
-HighWire Press
-ReleMed

Search by institute or a place (affiliation)

Most preferred option

Other suggested options
-ReleMed

Search by journal(s)

Most of the tools have this option except -askMEDLINE , -EBIMed ,
-Brij.in & -HighWire Press

Search by time periods

Most of the tools have this option except -ReleMed , -askMEDLINE
-Brij.in

History option to search citations with combination of multiple features mentioned above

-PubMed
-Scopus
-PubMed Central

FIND YOUR TOOLS OF INTEREST BASED ON THEIR FEATURES

Best query features

Click here for features

Overall
-Scopus , -PubMed & -PubMed Central
Building complex but specific queries
-Scopus , -Scirus & -BioIE
Available field (title, abstract, keywords, etc) selection
-PubMed , -PubMed Central, -PubMed Assistant & -PubMed Interact
Query refinement (e.g., history of the searches)
-Scopus , -PubMed & -PubMed Central

Best output features
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Overall
-GoPubMed & -Scopus
Primary output quality
-HighWire Press , -GoPubMed & -PubMed
Bio-entities (genes, proteins, disease, etc)
-GoPubMed -EBIMed & -BioAsk
Statistical features (top publishing authors/souces/journals etc)	click here for details
-GoPubMed & -Scopus
Sorting efficiency
-Scopus , PubMed Assistant & -PubMed
Visualization features (e.g., graphical display of entities)
-HighWire Press , -GoPubMed , -Scopus , -BioAsk & -BioIE

Other best features

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Storage
Scopus , -PubMed , -BioAsk & -PubMed Central
Saving/export/import/download
-Scopus & -PubMed

How to cite this?

TYPES OF TOOLS

LIST OF TOOLS

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