Global nutrition and health

APA PsycINFO is a database covering psychology, and the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, anthropology and economy. Journal coverage, which spans the 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from 2,500 periodicals and you are searching in 4 million bibliographic records. 99% of the articles are peer-reviewed. APA PsycINFO contains citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations.

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Consists of monthly updated evidence-based databases, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which offers quality based and reliable information about the effects of treatment and care.
The database is aimed at practitioners, researchers, educators who organize, manage and provide care and treatment.

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Embase is considered an important supplement to PubMed/Medline although there is considerable overlap between the two databases.

Embase includes more than 28 million articles from more than 8,400 journals and includes more references to European and third world literature than PubMed in general. PubMed indexes 1,877 European journals, but Embase indexes 2,450 and it moreover includes far more literature on pharmacology.

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Article database which covers all aspects of human influence to the environment. It covers subject such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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Medical database maintained by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology In-formation), which is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed indexes almost 5,500 journals with a total of more than 34 million articles in medicine, health, nursing, veterinary medicine, etc. The record goes back to the 1950s. From PubMed, there are links to many full text articles.

Access to PubMed

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Scopus is the largest citation database with citations from 1996 and forwards. The bibliographical coverage goes back to the 1870s. The database is produced by Elsevier. The database refers to articles from more than 21,000 titles and 5,000 international publishers. Scopus covers scientific articles, professional periodicals, book series, conference papers, books and patents.

It is possible to make citation analyses on a specific researcher, including a researcher’s h-index both with and without own citations

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Web of Science Core Collection is a highly acknowledged citation database, indexing the most influential journals and conferences in all professional areas. Web of Science Core Collection is the citation database that goes furthest back in time. It is produced by Clarivate Analytics.

You can choose to search the entire Web of Science Core Collection or delimit the search to individual databases such as:

• Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-
• Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index1975-
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science 1990-
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities -1990
• Emerging Sources Citation Index- 2005-

It is possible to search for subjects, authors and institutions and it is possible to search the impact of a specific article, author or institution measures by number of citations. It is in this way possible to use a citation analysis of a specific researcher to calculate a reseacher’s h-index.

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