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 <div class="navigation">
  <h4>Jump to section of interest:</h4>
   <ul>
    <li><a href="#boxes">The three search interfaces</a></li>
    <li><a href="#basic">Search basics: SPIRES-style vs. Invenio keyword style (Google-style)</a>
        <ul><li><em>In this page we shall present mainly examples of SPIRES-style searching.
            For tips on the use of Invenio keyword style,
            please see the <a href="/help/search-guide">full Invenio search guide</a>.</em> </li></ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#author">Searching on author name</a></li>
    <li><a href="#author_more">More about author searching</a></li>
    <li><a href="#author_count">Search by number of authors</a></li>
    <li><a href="#logical">Logical operators and truncation</a></li>
    <li><a href="#journals">How do I specify journals?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#dates">How do I specify dates?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#eprints">How do I find eprints?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#exp">Searching for papers by experiments/collaborations</a></li>
    <li><a href="#cnotes">How do I find conference notes?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#count">How do I search by citation count?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#hindex">Calculating the h-index</a></li>
    <li><a href="#citeops">New citation operators</a></li>
    <li><a href="#fulltext">Full-text searching</a></li>
    <li><a href="#caption">Caption search</a></li>
    <li><a href="#tc">Searching by Type-Code (tc)</a></li>
    <li><a href="#fc">Searching by Field-Code (fc)</a></li>
    <li><a href="#whois">whois / whereis</a></li>

    <li><a href="#results">Displaying your results</a></li>
    <li><a href="#dev">Under development</a></li>
    <li><a href="#bugs">Known bugs</a></li>

   </ul>
    <p> <a href="/info/hep/search-tips-index-list">Full listing of search terms</a> </p>
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<h5 id ="boxes">The three search interfaces</h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
     <p><a href="/">Line search</a> interface on the main page offers the greatest control and flexibility.</p>
     <p><a href="/help/easy-search">Easy search</a> interface offers a straightforward way to search INSPIRE.</p>
     <p><a href="/?ln=en&amp;as=1">Advanced search</a> interface offers a way to do precise searching using a variety of fields.</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">

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<h5 id ="basic">Search basics: SPIRES-style vs. Invenio keyword style</h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <p>Spires-style</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a e cremmer and aff ecole normale superieure" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <p>Invenio keyword style (Google-style)</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="author:&quot;e cremmer&quot; aff:&quot;ecole normale superieure&quot;" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="witten black hole" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="quark author:parke" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>

     <td class="tips-rhs">

      <p><b>SPIRES-style</b> searching is activated by starting your search with
       &quot;find&quot; or simply &quot;f&quot;. In certain cases INSPIRE recognizes
       that you're using an index term,
       e.g. "a polkinghorne" would give the same result as "find a polkinghorne". However,
       this doesn't work for all searches and using "find" or "f" is safer. Although
       we have tried to reproduce the traditional SPIRES syntax, there are some subtle differences - many are
documented below.
       If you find other differences that are bothersome, let us know at <a href="mailto:feedback@inspirehep.net">feedback@inspirehep.net</a></p>
      <p><b>Invenio keyword style (Google-style)</b>, the native language of INSPIRE allows you to perform a variety of
precision searches, including regex searching. More information on this can be found at the <a
href="/help/search-guide">full search guide</a>.
       Keyword searching is an easy way to combine index searching, e.g. "author:parke", with a free-text search, e.g. "quark" over any information
       in the record (title, abstract, references, etc.).</p>


       <p><em>Combining the different search syntaxes might lead to incorrect results.</em></p>

     </td>

   </tr>
 </table>



<h5 id ="author">Searching on author name</h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Author searching</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a ellis" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a john ellis" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a j r ellis" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a ellis, j" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a llewellyn smith, c" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find fa beacom" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
        <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find ea ellis, j" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>


     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
       <p>The flexible and sophisticated SPIRES author searching also works in INSPIRE. You can write author
names as either "j ellis" or "ellis, j" and they will give the same result. However, this won't work
if the surname is a compound surname such as &quot;Llewellyn Smith&quot;. In this case,
          searching should always be
          done using a comma, that is, in the form &quot;family names, given name&quot;. The search &quot;find a llewellyn Smith&quot; would match authors
          listed as &quot;Smith, L.&quot; in addition to the desired result. Using a period or full-stop (&quot;.&quot;) has no effect on the search.</p>

          <p>
To understand how name searching works, consider the following table in a world with three physicists
named John R. Ellis, Jane Q. Ellis and Peter James Ellis.
Including a middle initial will restrict the search to match only on records that also have the middle initial.
Including the full given name
will restrict the search to match only on the initial or the exact given name.
</p>

          <table border="1">
          <tr><td width="15%"> Search </td><td width="85%">Finds papers with name listed as</td></tr>
          <tr><td>&nbsp;j ellis&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;"J. Ellis", "J.R. Ellis", "J.Q. Ellis", "Jane Ellis", "John Ellis", "Jane Q. Ellis, "John R. Ellis",
                  "P.J. Ellis", "Peter J. Ellis", "Peter James Ellis"</td></tr>
          <tr><td>&nbsp;j r ellis&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;"J.R. Ellis", "John R. Ellis"</td></tr>
          <tr><td>&nbsp;john ellis&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;"J. Ellis", "J.R. Ellis", "J.Q. Ellis", "John Ellis", "John R. Ellis",
                  "P.J. Ellis", "Peter J. Ellis"</td></tr>
          <tr><td>&nbsp;john r ellis&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;"J.R. Ellis", "John R. Ellis"</td></tr>
          </table>
          <p>The "first-author"
          search, "fa", is the author search that can be used to search on the first author exclusively.</p>
          <p>The "exact-author" search, "ea", can be used
          to search on an author name <em>exactly</em> as it appears in the INSPIRE record. This search demands the use of the comma.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>

<h5 id="author_more">More about author searching&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">

     <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a j.r.ellis.1" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action23" value="Search" />
       </form>

     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">

      <p>We have a new author identification system. When you find a paper and click on an author's name, you
will be taken to the author's
<a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/author/J.R.Ellis.1/">
publication profile page</a>. Each author profile page is connected to a signature
consisting of initials, family name and a number (e.g., j.r.ellis.1 for John Ellis) which can also be used
for searching.   </p>
      <p>These pages are created by a program that identifies an author's identity based on name, co-authors,
affiliation and other metadata. For most authors it does quite well. For others, e.g. John Smith, it does less
well. Authors are able to help though by clicking the link <i>"This is me. Verify my publication list."</i>
and claiming their own papers and removing
other people's papers. In cases where authors have cleaned their publication lists, using the author
publicaton profile page signature for searching will give you the most precise result.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>

<h5 id="author_count">Search by number of authors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a j ellis and ac 1" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action23" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a j ellis and ac 1-&gt;10" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action33" value="Search" />
       </form>
      <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find cn cdf and ac 100+" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action43" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find cn cms and ac 1000+" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action43" value="Search" />
       </form>

     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>This index is useful for narrowing a search to theoretical papers which typically have less than 5 authors or experimental papers written
         by the full collaboration. More information on this latter point can be found on our
         <a href="http://blog.inspirehep.net/2012/05/working-with-collaborations.html">blog post</a> </p>
     </td>
   </tr>
</table>


<h5 id="logical">Logical operators and truncation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to
top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Logical operators:</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a l everett or t light higgs and j phys.rev.lett. and primarch hep-ph" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Search logic: Logical operators (<strong>and, or, not</strong>) work left to right.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Truncation:</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a o*aigh and t alge*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>The asterisk wildcard can be used anywhere in the search term, as we have done in this
         example in the search for papers by O'Raifeartaigh.</p> <p>Searches that become too general, e.g. "find t a*" will probably time out.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="journals">How do I specify journals?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find j phys.rev.lett.,62,1825" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find j Phys.Lett.,B33,305" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>

      <p>or coden searching</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find j prlta and a smith and c hep-th/9711200" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>

       <p>You can also search on the number of HEP citations to an article, whether or not the article is in INSPIRE.</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find c Phys.Rev.Lett.,28,1421" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>


     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Searching for journals in INSPIRE requires using either the standard short form of the journal name, e.g.,
"Phys.Rev.", or the coden, e.g. "PHRVA". The full set of journals in INSPIRE can be found in the <a
href="/collection/Journals">Journals database</a>. </p>
<p>Below is a list of some of the more popular journals in INSPIRE with
their standard short name and coden.<br />

      <select>
        <option>Short Title [CODEN]</option>
        <option>AIP Conf.Proc.[APCPC]</option>
        <option>ASP Conf.Ser.[ASPSF]</option>
        <option>Acta Phys.Polon.[APPOA]</option>
        <option>Adv.Cryog.Eng.[ACYEA]</option>
        <option>Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.[ARAAA]</option>
        <option>Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.[ARNUA]</option>
        <option>Annales Henri Poincare[AHPJF]</option>
        <option>Annals Phys.[APNYA]</option>
        <option>Astron.Astrophys.[AAEJA]</option>
        <option>Astron.J.[ANJOA]</option>
        <option>Astron.Nachr.[ASNAA]</option>
        <option>Astropart.Phys.[APHYE]</option>
        <option>Astrophys.J.[ASJOA]</option>
        <option>Astrophys.J.Suppl.[APJSA]</option>
        <option>Class.Quant.Grav.[CQGRD]</option>
        <option>Comments Nucl.Part.Phys.[CNPPA]</option>
        <option>Comput.Phys.Commun.[CPHCB]</option>
        <option>Cryogenics[CRYOA]</option>
        <option>Eur.Phys.J.[EPHJA]</option>
        <option>Eur.Phys.J.direct[EPHJD]</option>
        <option>Fortsch.Phys.[FPYKA]</option>
        <option>Gen.Rel.Grav.[GRGVA]</option>
        <option>Grav.Cosmol.[GRCOF]</option>
        <option>Health Phys.[HLTPA]</option>
        <option>IEEE J.Solid State Circuits[IJSCB]</option>
        <option>IEEE Trans.Adv.Packag.[ITAPF]</option>
        <option>IEEE Trans.Appl.Supercond.[ITASE]</option>
        <option>IEEE Trans.Magnetics[IEMGA]</option>
        <option>IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.[IETNA]</option>
        <option>Int.J.Mod.Phys.[IMPAE]</option>
        <option>J.Math.Phys.[JMAPA]</option>
        <option>J.Phys.[JOPQA]</option>
        <option>J.Phys.Conf.Ser.[00462]</option>
        <option>JCAP[JCAPA]</option>
        <option>JHEP[JHEPA]</option>
        <option>JINST[JINST]</option>
        <option>Lect.Notes Comput.Sci.[LNCSD]</option>
        <option>Lect.Notes Phys.[LNPHA]</option>
        <option>Living Rev.Rel.[00222]</option>
        <option>Mod.Phys.Lett.[MPLAE]</option>
        <option>Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.[MNRAA]</option>
        <option>Nature[NATUA]</option>
        <option>New Astron.Rev.[ASTRE]</option>
        <option>New J.Phys.[NJOPF]</option>
        <option>Nucl.Instrum.Meth.[NUIMA]</option>
        <option>Nucl.Phys.[NUPHA]</option>
        <option>Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.[NUPHZ]</option>
        <option>Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.[PTRSA]</option>
        <option>Phys.Lett.[PHLTA]</option>
        <option>Phys.Rept.[PRPLC]</option>
        <option>Phys.Rev.[PHRVA]</option>
        <option>Phys.Rev.Lett.[PRLTA]</option>
        <option>Phys.Rev.ST Accel.Beams[PRSTA]</option>
        <option>Phys.Scripta[PHSTB]</option>
        <option>PoS[POSCI]</option>
        <option>Pramana[PRAMC]</option>
        <option>Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng.[PSISD]</option>
        <option>Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.[PPNPD]</option>
        <option>Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap.[PASJA]</option>
        <option>Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.[PASPA]</option>
        <option>Rev.Mod.Phys.[RMPHA]</option>
        <option>Rev.Sci.Instrum.[RSINA]</option>
        <option>Science[SCIEA]</option>
      </select>
      </p>
      <p>  The <a
href="/help/easy-search">easy search</a>
provides a simple way to search on journal references.</p>

     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Search on a journal with a space in the title requires quotes</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value='find j "pisma zh.eksp.teor.fiz."' size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value='find j "pisma zh.eksp.teor.fiz.,38,299"' size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
      <p>Including when citation searching:</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value='find c "JETP Lett.,38,356"' size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Search on a given volume series</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value='find j "Phys.Lett.,B*" or j Phys.Rev.Lett. and a d rainwater' size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Note that to narrow the search to Phys.Lett.B we have used trucation of the volume, as the "B" is part of the volume in INSPIRE.
         Using quotes can help when using truncation in this manner, &quot;phys.lett.,b*&quot;.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="dates">How do I specify dates?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find d 1997-11" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a peskin and d 199*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a maldacena and d 97" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a maldacena and d 11/97" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a maldacena and d nov 97" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a maldacena and d 07" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find da today and title neutrino*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action16A" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find da today - 2 and primarch hep-th" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action26A" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find du &gt; yesterday - 2" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action26A" value="Search" />
       </form>

     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>All dates must be in the ISO format, yyyy(-mm(-dd)), e.g. "2003", "2003-06", "2003-06-27" or
      "nov 1997", "18 nov 1997". Dates such as "today", "yesterday", "last month" and "this month" also work.</p>
      <p>There are also indexes for date-added (da or dadd) and date-updated (du dupd)</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="eprints">How do I find eprints?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find eprint arxiv:0711.2908 or arxiv:0705.4298 or eprint hep-ph/0504227" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action17" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Note that the search term <strong>eprint</strong> is needed before "hep-ph/0504227".</p>
      <p>Eprint numbers of the form yymm.nnnn <strong>must</strong> be written as "arXiv:yymm.nnnn"; the old-style hep-ph/yymmnnn do not need "arxiv:".</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a unruh or t cauchy not t problem and primarch gr-qc" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action14" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>You can search on eprint type using primarch (primary archive, as opposed to cross-lists).</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>

<h5 id="exp">Searching for papers by experiments/collaborations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find cn babar" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action27" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find exp slac-pep2-babar" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action27" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find cn atlas and ac 1000+" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action27" value="Search" />
       </form>

     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Searches can be performed using either the collaboration name or the official experiment number.</p>
      <p>Using author-count, "ac" described <a href="#author_count">above</a> can help narrow the result set
         to the full-collaboration papers (and exclude conference papers).</p>
      <p>More information on experiments in INSPIRE can be found in the
         <a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/collection/Experiments">EXPERIMENTS database</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>


<h5 id="cnotes">How do I find conference notes?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find r atlas-conf-*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action27" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>LHC conference notes can be searched by report number, much like other preprints.</p>
      <p>More information on searching for conference notes can be found
         <a href="http://blog.inspirehep.net/2012/12/confronting-those-confounding.html">on our blog post of December 2012</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>


<h5 id="count">How do I search by citation count:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>You can now search for papers with any number of citations using the search term "topcite".</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a m albrow and j phys.rev.lett. and t quark* and topcite 137+" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a bando and topcite 100-&gt;500" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
       <p>Any number of citations can be searched on. You can also search a range such as topcite 60-&gt;173
          (be careful not to include any blank spaces when doing this).</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Citation searching on individual articles can still be done.</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find c Phys.Rev.Lett.,28,1421 or c arXiv:0711.4556" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="hindex">Calculating the h-index&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input type="hidden" name="of" value="hcs" />
         <input size="72" type="text" name="p" value="find a s coleman" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action5" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">You can type in any search and select the format <strong>HTML citesummary</strong> from the list of available formats, and then hit <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action9" value="Search" />. The h-index will be displayed at the bottom.
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="citeops">New citation operators: Articles cited by any other set of articles&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find citedby a maldacena" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action10" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Papers Maldacena has cited.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find citedby hep-th/9711200 and author cvetic" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action7" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>The articles by Cvetic cited in eprint hep-th/9711200</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a parke and citedby author witten" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action10" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Parke papers cited by Witten</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5>New Citation operators: Articles that refer to any other set of articles&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a parke, s j and refersto author witten" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action11" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>S.J. Parke papers citing author Witten</p>
      <p>Note the difference between this example and the one immediately above it. The "citedby" example finds the papers of Parke that Witten cited while
         the "refersto" example finds the papers of Parke that cite Witten.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find refersto hep-th/9711200 and t nucl*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action8" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Papers citing hep-th/9711200 with nucl* in the title (nuclear, nucleus, nucleon, ...)</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find refersto a parke or refersto a lykken and a witten" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action13" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Papers by Witten citing either Lykken or Parke (Boolean left-to-right, "or" then "and")</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="fin af oxford u. and refersto title muon*" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action12" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Oxford papers citing papers with the string "muon" in the title</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Or the entire journal.</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find refersto j Phys.Rev.Lett." size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Find citations to an entire journal</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Nested searches are possible.</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="refersto:refersto:author:maldacena" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action15" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Find citations of papers that cite Maldacena.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>


 </table>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>N.B.:</p>
      <p>Be aware that the refersto operator finds the number of papers citing a given set of papers. This is not the same as counting the total number of citations to those papers. The refersto result includes papers citing multiple papers within the target set, and lists those only once. If you want the traditional count of total citations summed over a set of papers, use the citesummary format, as described above.</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
     "Refersto" can be a useful tool for finding recent citations to your work. For more information on this see our
     <a href="http://blog.inspirehep.net/2012/06/new-way-of-citation-searching.html">June 2012 blog post</a>.
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="fulltext">Full-text Searching&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input type="hidden" name="ln" value="en" />
         <input size="72" type="text" name="p" value="find ft &quot;faster than light&quot;" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action75" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input type="hidden" name="ln" value="en" />
         <input size="72" type="text" name="p" value="find ft neutrino axion &quot;dark matter&quot; cosmology" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action85" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Full-text search is currently available for all arXiv papers, many theses, a few report series and some journal articles.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="caption">Caption search&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>You can also search for papers by entering keywords that are found in plot captions</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find caption soft SUSY breaking" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>
     <p>or phrases</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find caption &quot;illustration of two aligned black holes&quot;" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action" value="Search" />
       </form>

     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Caption searching applies mainly to eprints 2008-present.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="tc">Searching by Type-Code (tc)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a t dorigo and tc p" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action23" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a j hewett and tc r" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action33" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find fa g watts and tc c" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action43" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a c johnson and tc l" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action53" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a l motl and tc t" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action63" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find a s carroll and tc b" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action73" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find t higgs and tc i" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action73" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
       <table>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+b">b</a></td><td>Book</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+c">c</a></td><td>Conference paper</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+core">core</a></td><td>work concerning HEP</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+i">i</a></td><td>Introductory</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+l">l</a></td><td>Lectures</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+note">note</a></td><td>experimental note</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+p">p</a></td><td>Published (in a refereed journal)</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+proceedings">proceedings</a></td><td>collected volume of a conference proceedings</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+r">r</a></td><td>Review</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+tc+t">t</a></td><td>Thesis</td></tr>       </table>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>
<h5 id="fc">Searching by Field-Code&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>Field-codes expand the familiar archive categories to non-eprints.</p>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find fc t and t higgs mass" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action23" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find fc o and t feynman" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action33" value="Search" />
       </form>
       <form action="/search" method="get">
         <input name="p" type="text" value="find fc p and t neutrino" size="72" />
         <input class="formbutton" type="submit" name="action43" value="Search" />
       </form>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
       <table>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+a">a</a></td><td>Astrophysics</td><td>astro-ph</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+b">b</a></td><td>Beams (accelerators)</td><td>physics.acc-ph</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+c">c</a></td><td>Computing</td><td>cs</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+e">e</a></td><td>Experiment-HEP</td><td>hep-ex</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+g">g</a></td><td>Gravitation and Cosmology</td><td>gr-qc</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+i">i</a></td><td>Instrumentation</td><td>physics.ins-det</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+l">l</a></td><td>Lattice</td><td>hep-lat</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+m">m</a></td><td>Math and Math Physics</td><td>math/math-ph</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+n">n</a></td><td>Theory-Nucl</td><td>nucl-th</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+o">o</a></td><td>Other</td><td>Biographies, annual reports, etc.</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+p">p</a></td><td>Phenomenology-HEP</td><td>hep-ph</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+q">q</a></td><td>General physics</td><td>e.g., cond-mat and quant-ph</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+t">t</a></td><td>Theory-HEP</td><td>hep-th</td></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+fc+x">x</a></td><td>Experiment-Nucl</td><td>nucl-ex</td></tr>
       </table>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>

<h5 id="whois">whois / whereis&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>whois beacom</p>
      <p>whereis cern</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
       <p>Both these SPIRES-era searches are simply lookups to other databases. </p>
<p> Whois searches for people should be
done in the
          <a href="http://old.inspirehep.net/collection/HepNames">HEPNAMES</a> database, where either author searching as
described
above can be done, e.g.
<a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?cc=HepNames&amp;p=find+a+j+beacom">find a j beacom</a> or simply
<a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?cc=HepNames&amp;p=beacom">beacom</a>. </p>
<p>          Whereis searches for places should be done in the <a
href="http://old.inspirehep.net/collection/Institutions">INSTITUTIONS</a> database, e.g.
<a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?cc=Institutions&amp;p=cern">cern</a>.
       </p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>


<h5 id="results">Displaying your results&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="font-size:65%" href="#top">[Back to top]</a></h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
     <p>BibTeX:
     <a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+a+higgs&amp;of=hx">find a higgs</a> </p>
     <p>Regular LaTeX:
     <a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+a+higgs&amp;of=hlxe">find a higgs</a> </p>
     <p>CV LaTeX:
     <a href="https://old.inspirehep.net/search?p=find+a+higgs&amp;of=tlcv">find a higgs</a> </p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
<p>INSPIRE currently supports a variety of output formats and sorting options
that are available as drop downs once you have done a search.</p>
<p>The default output order is given by when records were added to INSPIRE. To order your results chronologically, choose
"Sort by: year".</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>

<h5 id="dev">Under development</h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>1. Country searching, either using the full country name or the internet code.</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>"find cc italy" or "find cc it"</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>2. HEPData searching.</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>Full search capabilities for <a href="http://blog.inspirehep.net/2012/10/hepdata-comes-to-inspire.html">HEPData
         content</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

 </table>

<h5 id="bugs">Known bugs</h5>
 <table class="tips">
   <tr>
     <td class="tips-lhs">
      <p>1. Searches with multiple dois or old-style eprint numbers
            fail because the slashes ("/") are interpreted as regular expression anchors for an Invenio-style search.</p>
     </td>
     <td class="tips-rhs">
      <p>find eprint hep-th/9711200 or hep-ph/9501251</p>
      <p>find doi 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.104042 or 10.1063/PT.3.1699</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
 </table>


      <p>If you have questions or comments about these searches or if there is anything you would like to see added to this help page, contact <a href="mailto:feedback@inspirehep.net">feedback@inspirehep.net</a></p>

      <p>See also <a href="/help/">Help Central</a> for other help documents.</p>

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