7 Tips to search google scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Tips to search google scholar

1- Google Scholar searches are not case sensitive:

That means a search for “Online Business” will produce the same results as a search for ” online business “.

2- Use double quotation:

marks to search for multiple words next to each other in the specified order (like in compound terms or an exact phrase), e.g., “online business” or “the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on online business”. Otherwise, Google (Scholar) automatically combines multiple words with the operator AND.

3- Allintitle:

Limit your search to terms appearing in the title only, e.g., allintitle:” online business”.

4- Filetype:

Limit your search to specific file types by using filetype: or ext: E.g., “online business” filetype:pdf

5- Site:

Limit your search to certain websites or domains. This can be useful for websites without good search options, e.g., “online business” site: emerald.com. By searching within certain domain extensions, you can limit your search by country or type of institution, e.g., “online business” site: edu.eg (academic institutions in the Egypt).

6- Add the year to the search phrase to get articles published in a particular year:

A search using e.g. online business 2021, will return articles or books published in 2021.

7- Combine all of the above:

to do more precise searches, e.g., allintitle:“ online business” filetype:pdf site:researchgate.net