Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Is Your Research Time Sensitive?


Our previous blog post, labeled Are You Ready? NASA’s Technology Readiness Levels (http://desulf.blogspot.com/2019/09/are-you-ready-nasas-technology.html ) described how and when to use either Google® or Google® Scholar to research your technology of choice.

As a follow up, suppose for your purposes you are only interested in the most recent developments in your field. Let’s say, for example, you only want to see results of dibenzothiophene research produced in the past year or two.

You can time-restrict your search results in both Google® and Google® Scholar. However, each of these tools takes a slightly different approach.

For example …

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Google® search string: dibenzothiophene
To time-restrict the results of the dibenzothiophene search …
Click Tools, located at the top of the Google results page
Click Any time drop down arrow
Choose your time range.
For example, selecting Past year reduces the results from 300,000 to about 6900

When searching the same topic in Google® Scholar, on the other hand …
Google® Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/ ) search string: allintitle: dibenzothiophene
On the left, click one of the selections. For example, if you click Since 2018, the results are reduced from 2370 to 186

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This trick can save you a lot of browsing time. And saving you time is what the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com ) is all about.


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