Rationale: Prior Research

Database Search Reports

SAMPLE #1

2. Prior Research

a. Database Searches:

#1 Pubmed.gov
Search terms: nerve + injury + recovery
Limits: Humans, Published in the last 5 years, Free full text
Hits: 353
Significance: This high number indicates that I need to narrow my search terms, but it isn’t high
enough that I should abandon my topic because it is already been researched heavily.

#2 atpa.org
Search terms: nerve + injury + recovery
Limits: journal articles/ research articles
Hits: 164
Significance: This number is smaller than the last, because I used a search engine specifically for
physical therapy articles.

#3 Pubmed.gov
Search terms: nerve + transfer + recovery
Limits: Humans, Published in the last 5 years, Free full text
Hits: 20
Significance: This small number shows that I should be use search terms that are specific to
different methods of nerve treatment, and compare my findings later in a cohesive paper.

#4 atpa.org
Search terms: nerve + transfer + recovery
Limits: articles
Hits: 7
Significance: This number of hits is the smallest and it suggests a possible focus for my work.
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2. Prior Research

Search Database Limits Search Number Significance

Number Terms of Hits
1 Business Peer Reviewed Gendered 116 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
2 Business Peer Reviewed Gendered 48 This is significant because there are a
Source Elite Advertising good amount of hits meaning that I
could review them in one semester and
use them as sources in my research
paper.
3 Business Peer Reviewed Gender 753 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Roles too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
4 Business Peer Reviewed Gender 328 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Roles too many hits to review in one
Advertising semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
5 Business Peer Reviewed Gender 2,756 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
6 Business Peer Reviewed Gender 888 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Advertising too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
7 Business Peer Reviewed History of 4,287 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
8 Business Peer Reviewed Evolution 3,778 This is significant because there are
Source Elite of too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
9 Business Peer Reviewed Evolution 17 This is significant because there are
Source Elite of Gender too few hits to review meaning that
Marketing there is either insufficient data on this
topic or I need to generalize my search
terms.
10 Business Peer Reviewed Evolution 5 This is significant because there are
Source Elite of Gender too few hits to review meaning that
Advertising there is either insufficient data on this
 topic or I need to generalize my search
terms.
11 Business Peer Reviewed History of 28 This is significant because there are a
Source Elite Gender good amount of hits meaning that I
Advertising could review them in one semester and
use them as sources in my research
paper.
12 Business Peer Reviewed History of 70 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Gender too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
13 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 2,990 This is significant because there are
Global English Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
14 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 1,627 This is significant because there are
Global English Advertising too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
15 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gender 35,004 This is significant because there are
Global English Roles too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
16 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gender 15,916 This is significant because there are
Global English Roles too many hits to review in one
Advertising semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
17 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gender 39,315 This is significant because there are
Global English Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
18 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gender 17,920 This is significant because there are
Global English Advertising too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
19 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, History of 70,755 This is significant because there are
Global English Marketing too many hits to review in one
semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
20 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Evolution 48,986 This is significant because there are
Global English of too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
21 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Evolution 8,668 This is significant because there are
Global English of Gender too many hits to review in one
Marketing
 semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
22 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Evolution 3,981 This is significant because there are
Global English of Gender too many hits to review in one
Advertising semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
23 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, History of 7,731 This is significant because there are
Global English Gender too many hits to review in one
Advertising semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
24 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, History of 15,108 This is significant because there are
Global English Gender too many hits to review in one
Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
25 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 2,541 This is significant because there are
Global English, Full Marketing too many hits to review in one
Text semester meaning I need to refine my
search terms.
26 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 1,417 This is significant because there are
Global English, Full Marketing too many hits to review in one
Text, Last 10 semester meaning I need to refine my
Years search terms.
27 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 729 This is significant because there are
Global English, Full Marketing too many hits to review in one
Text, Last 5 semester meaning I need to refine my
Years search terms.
28 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gendered 212 This is significant because there are
Global English, Full Marketing too many hits to review in one
Text, Last 2 semester meaning I need to refine my
Years search terms.
29 ABI/Inform Peer Reviewed, Gender 379 This is significant because there are
Global English, Full Advertising too many hits to review in one
Text, Last 5 semester meaning I need to refine my
Years search terms.
30 Business Peer Reviewed, Gender 54 This is significant because there are a
Source Elite Published Roles good amount of hits meaning that I
between January Marketing could review them in one semester and
2013 and use them as sources in my research
January 2018 paper.
31 Business Peer Reviewed, Gendered 21 This is significant because there are a
Source Elite Published Advertising good amount of hits meaning that I
between January could review them in one semester and
2013 and use them as sources in my research
January 2018 paper.
32 Business Peer Reviewed, Gender 267 This is significant because there are
Source Elite Published Roles too many hits to review in one
between January Marketing semester meaning I need to refine my
2013 and search terms.
January 2018