Here are the most common site operators:

• Find articles
• Author search
• Publication search
• Subject areas
• Date restrict

Find articles

Find articles search returns all articles which contain the concrete words. You can select the search which contains all words.

For example: funds transfer

You can select the search which contains exact phrase.

For example: electronic funds transfer system consist in

You can select the search without some words.

For example: allocate funds

You can select the search in definite place where these words occur.

For example: [anywhere in the article] or [in the title of the article]

Author search

Author search is one of the most effective ways to find a specific paper. If you know who wrote the paper you're looking for, you can simply add their last name to your search terms.

For example: The search friedman regression returns papers on the subject of regression written by people named Friedman.If you want to search on an author's full name, or last name and initials, enter the name in quotes: jh friedman.

When a word is both a person's name and a common noun, you might want to use the "author:" operator. This operator only affects the search term that immediately follows it, and there must be no space between "author:" and your search term.

Publication search

A publication-restricted search only returns results with specific words from a specific publication.

For example: If you want to search the Journal of Finance for articles about mutual funds, you might start like this: input the name of the journal in the publication field and the theme (or necessary word) in the field Find articles.

Keep in mind, however, that publication-restricted searches may be incomplete. This site gathers bibliographical data from many sources, including automatically extracting it from text and citations. This information may be incomplete or even incorrect; many preprints, for instance, don't say where (or even whether) the article was ultimately published.

In general, publication-restricted searches are effective if you're certain of what you're looking for, but they‘re often narrower than you might expect.

For instance: You might find that a search across all publications for [mutual finds] gives more useful results than a more specific search for "funds" only in the Journal of Finance. Finally, bear in mind that one journal can be spelled several ways (e.g., Journal of Biological Chemistry is often abbreviated as J Biol Chem), so you may need to try several spellings of a given publication in order to get complete search results.

Subject areas

Subject areas – restricted search turns articles in some area. You can select the search in all subject areas or choose the concrete areas:

• Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science
• Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
• Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
• Business, Administration, Finance, and Economics
• Medicine, Pharmacology, and Veterinary Science
• Chemistry and Materials Science
• Physics, Astronomy, and Planetary Science

Date restrict

Date-restricted searches can be effective when you're looking for the latest developments in a given area.

For example: Input the years when the articles were published. Bear in mind, however, that some web sources don't include publication dates, and a date-restricted search will not return articles for which our site was unable to determine a date of publication. So if you're sure that an article about superconducting films came out this year and a date-restricted search doesn't find it, retry the search without the date restriction.

 Result page

After clicking the button Search there will be the list of all finding articles. There are many pages which include articles there. You can select the number of the results which one page would include. If you want to know the concrete number of the searched articles - click the button Check all. If not – click the button Uncheck all.

• “Total numbers of articles published” show the number of all searched articles with the made terms.
• “Average number of citations” show the average number of all citations which are in the articles.
• “Books” show the number of books in result set
• “Citations” show the number of all citations which are in the articles.

In “Cited” column  you can see the number of the citations which the concrete article consist of. If you want to view these citations, then click them. Also, you can create your list of the necessary articles. Click the button Add to My List opposite the article’s title. Then you can view your list – click the button My List. There you can refresh it and save.