My search process “Peer Reviewed Articles”

As I continue my research and get a better understanding of how to use databases, and refine my search criteria, I recognize that there is a lot more information already published than I realized in the beginning.  When I first started the research, I was getting a high number of results from the search engine, however, most of the results were insignificant or unrelated to my specific need.  It was a bit frustrating to learn how to navigate through the search process and learn how to limit the search criteria and use specific combinations of words.  The end result is so rewarding, because the final search that I did yielded over 900 results and I was interested in the first 60 article titles that I read, so I know that it was a good search, so I am going to save it.

My search process “Peer Reviewed Articles”

Neuropsychology AND Research à results 16,846

Changed second word to “Occupation” à results 93

That search gave me “occupational related neuropsychological disorders” (not what I am looking for)

The next search: Neuropsychology AND Studies AND Cognitive à results 12,715

After reading through the first 3 pages of results (30 articles) I realized that I am close, but I still do not have exactly what I was looking for.  So I decided to change my search a little.

My new search:

Boolean/Phrase: “Neuropsychology AND Research” à results 996

Neuropsychology AND research

Limiters

·       Full Text

·       Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

·       Published Date: 2014-2015

At this point I was happy with the results (like a child in a candy store) and wanted to read every article I found.