<aside> 💡 Did you know? It is possible to do an 'advanced search' within AcademicLabs. To build highly specific search queries, you can combine multiple search operators.

Especially a proximity search is extremely powerful.

To summarize, this query contains all operators that can be used: **("breast cancer" OR "bladder cancer") AND "antibody drug conjugate"~3 HER2~1 →** Link to results

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Here’s a breakdown of how you can use the search operators:

• AND Find results that contain both the terms in your search query.

  For e.g., GLP1 AND inhibitor Outcome examples:

  • publications that contain both GLP1 and Inhibitor, yet it can be that GLP1 is mentioned in the title, while inhibitor in the abstract.
  • researchers that contain both GLP1 and Inhibitor in their About, or in a publication, or a grant…

• (no operator) Find results that contain both the terms of your search query in the same field (e.g. publication title) or document in a profile (e.g. a patent). Hence, it provide more precise results than using AND

  For e.g., GLP1 Inhibitor

  Outcome examples:

  • publications that contain both GLP1 and Inhibitor in a title, or in the abstract, hence the likelihood of ‘inhibitor’ being related to GLP-1 is higher.
  • researchers that contain both GLP1 and Inhibitor in their About, or in a publication, or a grant… (similar as AND)

• " " Find results that contain both the words GLP1 and inhibitor, in exactly the same order without any words in between.

  For e.g., "GLP1 Inhibitor"

  This provides the most precise results. However, you miss out on results like ‘… inhibits GLP1…’ or ‘is both a GLP1 and … inhibitor’.

• " "~n This is a proximity search, very useful to find results that contain both the words GLP1 and inhibitor close to each other in a text. If I use 2 as n, then we find results where both terms are maximum separated by 2 terms (not counting stop words like in, on, by, the,…).

  For e.g., "GLP1 Inhibitor"~2

  Outcome: documents or profiles containing ‘…inhibition of GLP1…’ or “…GLP1 or GLP2 inhibitor’ will be found in this way.

• ~ Find results that contain slight variations of the word.

  For e.g.:

  • Stephen~2 (if you don’t know the spelling of a researcher’s or company’s name.)
  • GLP1~1 (if you want to find results with GLP1 or GLP2,… Note however that it can then also be GAP1, ALP1, etc. It is better to use (GLP1 OR GLP2) instead, see below).

• OR Find results that contain either of the terms in your search query.

  For e.g., Alzheimer’s OR Parkinson’s

• (…) Use brackets - often with terms separated by OR - to structure your query when looking for example for a technology or target in the context of multiple diseases.

  For e.g., (Alzheimer’s OR Parkinson’s) AND “antibody drug conjugate”~3

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