quick pubmed search q

[chef]

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i'm looking for pub record of some1 w/ a very common last name "lee s"

when i type it up i get crazy many hits, including those w/ names lee sk, lee sh, lee sj etc.. is there a way to only look up lee s and even narrower still? thx

 

[Doctor&Geek]

Originally posted by chef
i'm looking for pub record of some1 w/ a very common last name "lee s"

when i type it up i get crazy many hits, including those w/ names lee sk, lee sh, lee sj etc.. is there a way to only look up lee s and even narrower still? thx

If you know the institution that the guy is at, type in the city after the name.

For example,

"Lee S Birmingham"

Yours,

 

[Treg]

It is also good to use the "preview/index" function. You can select fields to search, and use the functions AND, NOT, etc.

Good luck!

Treg🙂

 

[surge]

I'm a big fan of field search tags. So, for example, typing in

Lee S [au]

will give you all authors whose name contains "Lee S". But typing in

"Lee S" [au]

will only give you authors actually named "Lee S". Furthermore, if you know what university he/she's at, you can use the affiliation tag, so that typing

"Lee S" [au] AND yale [ad]

would only give you a Lee S at Yale. If you, for example, wanted this guys articles from back when he was a postdoc at Harvard, then you might type

"Lee S" [au] AND (yale OR harvard) [ad]

Another useful one is [ta] which is for the title of the journal (make sure you're using MeSH abbreviations). So, typing

"Lee S" [au] AND (yale OR harvard) [ad] AND (science OR nature) [ta]

will give you articles by Lee S published in Science or Nature either during his time at Yale or Harvard.

I'm sure you get the point. 😉
Check out PubMed's Help, it's pretty helpful.