Search Smarter & Find More

The articleCitation Searching: Search Smarter & Find Moreby Chelsea C. Hammond and Stephanie Willen Brownhttp://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may08/Hammond_Brown.shtml

1. What is the problem for the study ?
How citation searching help researcher to perform a better search, by improve their ability to search for articles that cite a particular article and ability to search for articles outside the primary field of interest.

2. What procedures did the experimenter use for the study ?
The research is operate by the Elsevier Student Ambassador Program (SAmP) take place from March 2007 through March 2008. The program coordinator first train graduate student to learn about citation searching using Scopus and Web of Science and then these graduate student trainer train their colleagues. There are 38 classes offered by these graduate student trainer and totally 350 student have been taught.

3. What were the major conclusions for the study ?
Taught graduate students: a. know how to do broad, interdisciplinary searches.b. know how to chain from the original article to the backward citation in that article and to the forward articles that cited the original.c. use citation database to find information about who's citing their articles

4. How would you classify the study, according to the six types of research studies we looked at in this lesson ?
I think it is a case study research.

Sunny