Advanced and saved searches
The advanced search is available through two buttons in your interface:
Criteria, operators and groups
The advanced search allows you to look for articles by combining several criteria with AND and OR operators.
To add a criteria, click on the (+) icon:
When several criteria are present, they must be combined with a boolean operator:
Criteria can be grouped to refine your search. Groups are created using parentheses:
Advanced search: a case study
For example, let us search for papers:
- submitted by one specific author
- for two different special issues
The search request will look like this, where we specify:
Saving search criteria
Once the search is launched and you visualize results, you can save the criteria:
To save the search, you must input a name, and can optionnally display a shortcut in your dashboard:
You will retrieve your saved searches here:
and in your dashboard if you activated the option:
Editing/duplicating search criteria
Saved searches can be conveniently edited and duplicated when necessary, using those two buttons:
