How do I perform an Affiliation search?
Last updated on November 20, 2024
Affiliation search provides the ability for the user to search for Compendex records via a listing of the profiles from author's affiliations. These profiles contain the affiliations' preferred names as well as the variant names that have been used for their published documents.
The Affiliation search feature provides a precise method for locating specific institutions and schools by using their names as well as their corresponding cities and countries/regions to locate individual affiliation profiles.
Affiliation searches are performed against the affiliation field from the affiliation profile. This field includes the preferred and variant names as well as the city and country/region names for the affiliation. The Affiliation results display the affiliation's preferred name as well as the most frequently used variant name for which the affiliation has published documents. Thus, the displayed affiliation names in the search results for some records may be different than the terms contained in your search query. In these cases, the search results that are returned matched a variant affiliation name, the affiliation city, or the affiliation country/region from the affiliation profile.
Affiliation searches are not added to your Search history.
Note: Your institution must be subscribed to the Compendex database and Affiliation search must be enabled for your institution to access this feature.
How
Follow these steps to perform an Affiliation search:
- Click ‘Search’ at the top of any Engineering Village page.
- Scroll down and click ‘Affiliation.’ The Affiliation search form opens.
- From the ‘Affiliation name’ search box, enter an affiliation name, city, or country/region.
- Select ‘Show exact matches only’ if desired. Refer to the ‘Affiliation exact match search’ section of this FAQ for an explanation of affiliation exact names.
- Click the magnifying glass icon to run your search.
The ‘Loading’ message displays, and the Affiliation results appear below the Affiliation search form.
Affiliation search results contain data from the Affiliation index. This index contains affiliation names, affiliation cities, and affiliation countries/regions. Entering affiliation information as listed in the table below will yield the following example search results.
Affiliation exact match search provides a precise method of searching affiliation names by returning results that are exact matches of the name in your search query. For exact match, the entire affiliation name are indexed as one token. Refer to examples below.
Identically to regular affiliation searches, exact match affiliation searches are run against the preferred names as well as against the variant name for the affiliation.
Select the ‘Show matches only’ check box to enable this feature.
Wildcards can be used in conjunction with exact matches for names in the affiliation name, affiliation city, or affiliation country/region. The results from a wildcard search using exact match will contain only names indexed as a single word or token.
Use a question mark (?) to replace a single character anywhere in the name.
Use an asterisk (*) to replace 0 to x number of characters anywhere in the name.
You can use the question mark and asterisk wildcards in the same name. Refer to the examples below.
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