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Limiting a search
- When we perform a search, we want to be as comprehensive as possible in the first instance, ensuring that we have accounted for variations in author terminology. However this might initially identify a huge amount of results to view:
- Our search has returned 2,633 hits for our search strategy, so we need to limit these hits to a more manageable, more relevant amount. We can use parameters, such as a date range, a type of publication or a language, to reduce the number of hits, and make our search more contemporary and relevant.
- By limiting our search to journal articles, written after 2015 in English, we have reduce our search down to 726 papers:
