Automatic Term Mapping (continued)

The Journals Translation Table contains:

• Full journal titles
• MEDLINE title abbreviations
• International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN)

If you searched for the journal of cell biology, for example, PubMed would translate this as "J Cell Biol"[Journal] OR "the journal of cell biology"[All Fields]. [Show Me]

What if a journal name is also a MeSH heading -- Cell, for example? PubMed will first check in the MeSH Translation Table, find a match and stop the mapping process. The search will also include [All Fields], therefore it will find the journal name, but the results will include many more citations than from the journal, Cell. [Show Me]

Consider using Limits or the Single Citation Matcher to find journal titles that are also subject terms.

Searching for journal titles will be covered in a later module of this course.