Enter article title terms to limit your search to article titles.

Enter your search terms in any order. The product returns every record containing all your search terms. To look for an exact phrase, use quotation marks. Example: "genetic engineering".

Enter one or more terms connected with Booleans (AND, OR and NOT). Enter complete words and phrases or partial words and phrases using wildcard (*).

Title Search Rules

• PLANT, Plant and plant returns the same results: case does not matter.
• Gene* matches genetic, generic, generator, and general.

Title Search Rules

• "Genetic Engineering" finds records containing the exact phrase genetic engineering.
• Seed germination find records containing the words "seed" or "germination". The two words may appear in the same Title field together or may be far part apart note the following example:

Exmaple 1 : Increasing salt tolerance in tall fescue (festuca arundinacea schreb) by seed priming techniques during germination and early growth.
Exmaple2 : Enhancement of seed germination in kiwi fruit by stratification and gibberellic acid application

Using Boolean Search Operators

• Plant protection (without quotation marks) is equivalent to the search plant OR protection.
• Plant AND protect* finds records containing the words plant AND protection, protects, protected, and so on.
• Plant OR protect finds records containing either plant OR protect or both words.

The topic search is done on the following the following fields within a record.

• Title
• Abstract
• Keywords

Enter your search terms in any order. The product returns every record containing all your search terms. To look for an exact phrase, use quotation marks. Example: "genetic engineering"

Enter one or more terms connected with Booleans (AND, OR, and NOT). Enter complete words and phrases or partial words and phrases using wildcard (*).

Topic Search Rules

• PLANT, Plant and plant returns the same results: case does not matter.
• Gene* matches genetic, generic, generator, and general.

Topic Search Examples

• "Genetic Engineering" finds records containing the exact phrase genetic engineering.
• Seed germination find records containing the words "seed" or "germination". The two words may appear in the same Title field together or may be far part apart note the following example:

Example 1 : Increasing salt tolerance in tall fescue (festuca arundinacea schreb) by seed priming techniques during germination and early growth.
Example 2 : Enhancement of seed germination in kiwi fruit by stratification and gibberellic acid application
Example 3 : Population dynamics and nutrient spray on the yield and economics of direct sown and transplanted hybrid cotton TCHB 213 (Note seed is not present in the title but it is present in Abstract, Keyword )


• Plant protection (without quotation marks) is equivalent to the search plant OR protection.
• Plant AND protect* finds records containing the words plant AND protection, protects, protected, and so on.
• Plant OR protect finds records containing either plant OR protect or both words.

Indian Citation Index contains the names of all authors associated with Journal Articles

Enter the name of an author to search the Author(s) field within a record. Enter complete names or partial names using wildcards (*).

Searching for Authors Using Analyze Search Results

To narrow your search to authors of specific types of published papers (for example, journal articles or conference proceedings or books), use the Analyze Results function.

1. From the Results page, click the Analyze Search Results link that appears under the Sort menu.
2. From the Analyze Search Results page, rank the records by the Source Title field.
3. Go through the list and select records to view or select records to exclude.
4. Go to the Results page to analyze your results.

Guidelines for Entering Author Names

Format

Enter the last name first, followed by a space. You may also enter last names without initials. For example:

• Sharma M* finds Sharma M, Sharma MJ, Sharma Manish, and so on.
• Sharma MA* finds Sharma Mamta and Sharma Manish.
• Sharma finds all authors with the last name Sharma.

Case

Use upper, lower, or mixed case. For example, Singh (or singh) is the same as SINGH.

Wildcards

Enter a last name followed by an asterisk (*) to find all authors with that name. For example:

• Singh * finds Singh A, Singh AS, Singh E, Singh EJ, and so on.
• Singh finds the same names. It may also find additional records where Singh appears without any initials.

Boolean Search Operators

Separate two or more names by the search operators AND, OR, and NOT. For example:

• Murthy S* AND Agarwal G* finds records of articles authored by both Murthy S and Agarwal N.
• Murthy S* OR Agarwal N* finds records of articles authored by either Murthy S OR Agarwal N (or both Murthy S and Agarwal N).
• Murthy S* NOT Agarwal N*  finds records in which Murthy S appears but not Agarwal N.

Apostrophes

Last names containing an apostrophe should be searched with and without the apostrophe. For example, Paget's OR Pagets finds records containing Paget's and Pagets.

Like Institution, Publication drop list provides incremental search. As each character is keyed in, the Search Engine will provide with all possible matches for the publication. As user enters the text, one or more possible matches for the text are found and immediately presented to the user.

Search will retrieves all source titles (publication)that are covered by ICI.

Incremental search allows you to narrow down your search for specific item, it also allows you to see the matching patterns while it is being typed. To use search using wild card, put "*" (without quotes) at the beginning/end/both sides of the search string. For example Indian Journal of Agr* (quotes not required) would retrieve the following sources tiles:

• INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
• INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (THE)

Wild card "*" character can be used in the beginning, or at the end (as shown above) or at both ends of the search string.

Example: Search for *DERM*
The following journal will be displayed.

• INDIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY VENEREOLOGY & LEPROLOGY
• INDIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

To select the publication use arrow keys (Up/Down) and then hit Enter to confirm.

Note - exact search: To search for an exact match, type publication name and do not use wild card "*" character.

Example: Type or key in Current Science, select using up/down arrow key then hit Enter.

See also: Institution Search

Like Publication, Institution drop down is an incremental search. As you type matching, pattern is displayed to help the user to narrow down or select from the list.

Search will retrieves all matching institutions from ICI database.

For wild card search to be executed, use "*" (without quotes) at the beginning/end/both ends of the search string.

Example: As the following is typed, the search engine would keep searching for matching pattern.

• All India Institute of Medical
• Cardiothoracic Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

etc..

Note - exact search: An Institution name entered without a wild card character will be treated as an exact search, please note the following example for an exact search:

Example Type/key in: All India Institute of Medical Sciences

The system will fetch all articles which matches exact name of the institution, which in this case is All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Use Booleans (AND, OR, and NOT) to combine addresses to broaden or narrow search results.

See also: Publication Search

Combine an Institution search with an Author search to broaden or narrow your search results.

Each article is categorized to a document type. This search allows the user to select a specific document type from a predefined list. Article will be fetched based on the selection made.

The search for a Document Type can also be combined with other search fields like Title, Author, Publication etc using the Boolean operators (AND, OR & NOT).

ICI comprises of various Document Types.

This search works in a similar way as Publication Name search. Example,

• New Delhi - will search for exact phrase.
• New* - will search for articles belonging to institutes situated in place starting from New. This type of search will be slower as compared to exact match.