by Amy James
Last Updated Feb 18, 2025
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Finding your lead article
ACS publicationsThis link opens in a new windowProvides access to journals and other publications from the American Chemical Society covering analytical, applied, biological, material and engineering, organic-inorganic, and physical chemistry.
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Search for a topic that you're interested in
Click on Refine Search and select Advanced Options
Put in the year you are interested in searching into the Publication DateCustom range boxes (i.e. Jan 2019 and Dec 2019) and select Search.
If you wish, you can add additional journals in the Published in box.
If you want to browse all the articles for that year, repeat the the advanced search with no topic.
ScienceDirectThis link opens in a new windowContains abstracts, articles, and full text of journals and books published by Elsevier in physical science and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social science and humanities Subject areas include (chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, energy, engineering, materials science, mathematics, physics and astronomy), (agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, environmental science, immunology and microbiology, and neuroscience), (medicine and dentistry, nursing and health professions, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical science, veterinary science and veterinary medicine), and (arts and humanities, business, management and accounting, decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, psychology, social sciences).
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Under the Years filter in the left column, click on Show more
Select the year you are interested in
If you want to browse all the articles for that year, click on Advanced Search and search again making sure
the journal title is in the In this journal or book title box
the year of interest is in the Year(s) box
the Find articles with these terms is empty
Wiley online libraryThis link opens in a new windowContains abstracts, articles, and full text of journals and books published by Wiley across all disciplines
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Click on Advanced Search
Put in the year you are interested in searching into the Publication DateCustom range boxes (i.e. Jan 2019 and Dec 2019) and select Search.
You can also search for topic by putting it in the search box.
In the search box on the right, enter the year of interest in the Year box
You can also search for topic by putting it in the search box.
Other tips:
The corresponding author is usually has a star or other symbol by his/her name.
It will be easier to find articles by your corresponding author if he or she has a more unique (last) name. Try to avoid articles where the lead author has a name like Michael Smith or Chang Lee.
If your corresponding author is/was a graduate student or post-doc you are less likely to find additional articles.
If you pick an article with many authors (i.e. more than 4 or 5), you may have difficulty finding research groups that cite the article that do not have any of the authors.