Arabic Citation Index Search Fields
| Search Field | Description |
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| Topic |
Enter Topic terms to search the following fields within a record.
Topic Terms in Arabic The search الطاقة finds records that contain the word الطاقة Enter multiple words with or without the AND operator. The following searches are equivalent:
Use search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, SAME) to prescribe a relationship between terms such as equivalence, exclusion or proximity. |
| Title |
Title refers to the title of a journal article, proceedings paper, book or book chapter. To search for the title of a journal, select the Publication Name field. |
| Author |
Enter the family name followed by the given name and/or initials in Arabic or Latin script. All author names provided by the source publication are included and searchable. Author Search Examples
Boolean Search Operators Separate two or more names by the search operators AND, OR, and NOT.
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| Publication |
Enter a publication name to search the Source field in a record. Titles of Arabic-language publications have been transliterated from Arabic script to English script. Consequently, to search for Arabic-language publications, you may enter the title in either Arabic or English script. For example: مجلة العلوم الإنسانية finds records of articles published in مجلة العلوم الإنسانية MAGALLAT AL ULUM AL INSANIYYAT finds the same records because it is a transliteration of the title مجلة العلوم الإنسانية Note: mva: الإنسانية in Arabic is transliterated as MAGALLAT AL ULUM AL INSANIYYAT and translated in Google Translate as “Humanities Journal.” Enter the full publication name of an Arabic-language publication in Arabic or English script. مقاليد finds records of articles published in مجلة مقاليد Maqalid (Warqlaẗ) also finds records of articles published in مجلة مقاليد For titles transliterated from Arabic script to English script, you may enter a partial title followed by a wildcard: Maqalid* finds records of articles published in journals whose titles begin with Maqalid (Warqlaẗ) القانون* (Law*) finds records of articles published in مجلة القانون والأعمال (Journal of Law and Business) or مجلة كلية القانون للعلوم القانونية والسياسية (Journal of College of Law for Legal and Political Science ) You cannot truncate the name of an Arabic-language publication in Arabic script. You may search for documents from multiple publications by combining publication names with the search operator OR: جلة القانون والأعمال (Journal of Law) OR مجلة القانون والأعمال (Journal of Law and Business) finds records of articles published in either جلة القانون والأعمال or مجلة القانون والأعمال (Journal of Law and Business) |
| Address |
The Arabic Citation Index provides partial addresses of authors. Generally, the name of the institution and department name are given, but the country name or full mailing address is not provided. A superscript next to an author name indicates the corresponding address in the Addresses field. If the name of an author in Arabic script has been transliterated into Latin script, then an address for that author is usually supplied in both Arabic and English. Address Examples جامعة عين شمس finds records in which جامعة عين شمس appears in the Addresses field. عين شمس finds records in which عين شمس appears in the Addresses field. This search retrieves all of the records found by the search جامعة عين شمس. In addition, it retrieves records that contain عين شمس anywhere in an address: Ain Shams University finds records in which Ain Shams University appears in the Addresses field. Ain Shams find records in which Ain Shams appears in the Addresses field. This search retrieves all records found by the search Ain Shams University. In addition, it retrieves records in which Ain Shams appears anywhere in the Addresses field. Ain Shams University جامعة عين شمس Ain Shams عين شمس Faculty of Education كلية التربية Department of Sociology قسم علم الاجتماع |
| Language |
Records in this product include a language indicator that indicates whether the language of the source document was published in English or Arabic. Use this field to limit searches to Arabic or English documents. The default selection is All languages. |
| Document Type |
When you limit a search by document type, you retrieve only those records that contain the search term(s) you entered in the search fields and the document type(s) you selected from the list. To restrict your search, select one or more documents from the Document list. The default selection is All document types.
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| Accession Number |
The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of an accession number (a product identification code) and a sequence number. Always join multiple numbers by the OR Boolean operator. Do not use AND, NOT, NEAR, and SAME when searching for accession numbers: the product will return an error message. Enter an accession number to find a specific record. For example, ARCI:20788314 finds the record identified by accession number ARCI:20788314. You can retrieve a group of records by entering a partial accession number followed by an asterisk. For example, ARCI:207883* finds all records whose accession number begins with ARCI:207883, including:
Note: Accession numbers that start with the same numeric sequence is not an indication a group of records are from the same issue of a publication |
