Querylanguage

Wildcarding

Scirus supports the use of wildcard characters when conducting a search:

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Use a question mark ( ? ) to replace a single character anywhere in a word:

te?t finds test and text

?-phenyl finds o-phenyl and p-phenyl

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Use an asterisk ( * ) to replace multiple characters anywhere in a word. It replaces 0 or more characters in the word (i.e. a search for car* will return car as well as carbon, etc.):

parasit* finds parasite, parasitic, parasitology, parasitemia

This section provides information about the Query Language feature of Scirus

Abbreviations

You can run fielded searches using abbreviated field terms. You may find the following abbreviations useful:

•	author - au:
•	Title - ti:
•	Journal - jo:
•	keywords - ke:
•	URL - url:
•	domain name - dom:
•	author affiliation(s) -af:

These fields are also available in the dropdown menu on the Advanced Search Page.

When using these abbreviations, enter a colon “:” between the abbreviation and your search query. For example, au:smith will search for authors named Smith. Do not use any spaces between the abbreviation, the colon and the keyword.

If you are using the + or - characters in combination with abbreviations, make sure to put the + or the - before the abbreviation. For example:

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health -au:smith where "au:"; searches the author field, will return results with the term health in the text but not those that have authors with the name smith

Be aware that both the + and - characters can only be used on the second and subsequent keywords (and not on the first keyword).