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If you’re finding that keyword searches alone aren’t giving you accurate enough results in your literature searches, an F1000 SmartSearch might be what you need. Use the SmartSearch button, which appears on any article recommendation in F1000Prime, to create an intelligent search. A SmartSearch will provide you with highly accurate results matching your area of interest. And these results improve in accuracy over time through your interactions with them.

“The SmartSearch result I just received was incredibly important. It pointed me to a paper that had just been pre-released, not even on the journal’s website under the current issue, and the paper was über important for my research findings.”
— Prof Stephen Roper, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, USA

Step 1: Seed
Based on your initial article of interest, F1000Prime scans all of PubMed to find related articles, which you then use to create a small collection – about 6 papers – of “seed” articles. You can also add your own articles or own selected articles to the seed.

Step 2: Train
Based on your seed articles, F1000Prime produces a list of potentially relevant articles from PubMed. The task then is to review the list and indicate which articles from this list are relevant and which are not relevant to your specific topic of interest.

Step 3: Gain
The final short step is to create an email alert at your desired frequency. You’ll then receive an alert with the latest papers indexed in PubMed matching your SmartSearch. And each of the results in these email alerts can be interacted with, using relevant/not relevant buttons (pictured), to continue to train the system over time.

 

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