Today I learned from colleagues about a nice tool to use while searching in PubMed. It’s called PubReMiner and you can start here.

Just fill the box with your search string and you can dates between which you want to search. Then hit the PubReMiner button and you get a nice overview of the results: how many hits in what years, which journals, which autors, countries, additional MESH terms. You can add those to your search. If you are done, click the button which says Goto PubMed with Query  at the top of the page and you can see the abstract of the articles you found.

I think I’ll be going to use this a lot. The interesting thing for me is that it’s developed by a Dutch colleague: Jan Koster, from AMC Amsterdam.