Research Quality Advisory: Methods

Literature Search Databases

• PubMed
  ​free search engine using MEDLINE database of life sciences and biomedical research 
• Google Scholar​
  ​Google Scholar free web search engine of scholarly literature in variety of research disciplines and sources
• Scopus
  ​Elsevier's is licensed database of academic research in life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences
• Web of Science
  Clarivate Analytics licensed database of academic research in variety of academic disciplines
• DML library databases
  open and licensed databases of academic research in health sciences and military research 

Clinical Trials Databases 

• Clinical Trials Tracker - reporting tool of the registered clinical trials at the ClinicalTrials.gov. Information about the clinical trials tracking at the AllTrials 
• FDA Clinical Trial Tracker 
• EU Clinical Trials Tracker 

• OpenRefine
  ​Google Scholar open source tool for data cleaning, transforming from one format into another, and extending it with web services and external data
• Science of Science (Sci2) Tool
  study the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro, meso, and macro levels
• R, RStudio
  ​free software environment used for the statistical computing and data science 
• Gephi
  open source software used for the analysis and visualization of the networks 
• Inkscape
  open source professional vector graphics editor
• IN-SPIRE™
  software for information analytics and visualization 
• ​VOSviewer
  software for data mining and visualization of bibliometric networks
• D3.js
  JavaScript Data-driven Documents library used for the interactive visualization in web browsers