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[usr]

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hello

does pubmed indexes ALL reliable journals? or there is reliable medical knowledge outside pubmed?

thanks

 

[Neuronix]

hello

does pubmed indexes ALL reliable journals? or there is reliable medical knowledge outside pubmed?

thanks

I dunno any journal pubmed doesn't index. I think it indexes some pretty unreliable stuff too.

The other search engine I like is Google Scholar. Google Books and NCBI's books (through Pubmed) can also bring up useful stuff. For clinical info, emedicine can be quite useful and is free.

 

[wanderer123]

I would really recommend ISI Web of Science as a different scientific article search engine to use - it has more features for analyzing and refining your search results.

 

[Shifty B]

Haha, there is some pretty unreliable stuff on Pubmed, for sure. Almost any journal that you need in English is going to be there.

That being said, I agree with the above posts about occasionally searching other places. These sources may not have different papers, but they may sort them differently. You may end up finding something more relevant near the top.

 

[mrsanator]

It depends on the type of medical knowledge you're after and how exhaustive you want to be. There certainly is credible medical evidence not in PUBMED (not to say that everything in PUBMED is credible).

For systematic clinical reviews it's standard practice to also check EMBASE and CENTRAL (check out chapter 6 of http://www.cochrane-handbook.org/). Some studies (indexed in PUBMED naturally!) have shown doing so does increase yield meaningfully.

 

[usr]

For systematic clinical reviews

that's interesting
any more databases like this?