Finding a few good good articles on a particular topic can be very easy.
State your question as specifically as possible:
Identify the key words in your question:
Type the key words into the search box:
PubMed searches for the keywords in the article title, abstract and subject headings. It does not search the full text of the article.
Results show up with the most relevant articles, as predicted by PubMed, first in summary format. Click on the title for more information about a single article, change your search by adding, editing, or deleting terms in the search box, or change the Display Settings to view the most recent articles first.
Go to a PubMed search for: acupuncture AND migraine
Enter the author's name in the following format: Author's Last Name Initials. Example: Corbie-Smith G
Note:
Go to this author search in PubMed: Corbie-Smith G
Notice that the last (oldest) article retrieved was published in May 1997.
To run a more advanced search in PubMed or see your search history, select Advanced below the search box.
On the PubMed Advanced Search page:
To find a specific article when you know some of the publication information such as journal name, publication date, page numbers, author name, or title words, use the Single Citation Matcher form.
The link to Single Citation Matcher is on the PubMed homepage. It is the third item in the second-left section labeled Find, below the search box.
You only need to fill in a few data points.
Author Name and First Page often bring up a single result.