Last Author Added to PubMed's "Sort by" Menu and Single Citation Matcher
(From the NLM Technical Bulletin)
Last author will soon be available as two new features: Sort by Menu Selection, Single Citation Matcher Option.
Sorting by last author has been added to the PubMed Sort by pull-down menu. Using with the First Author and Last Author options, PubMed sorts A to Z with citations having no authors (anonymous) at the end; the secondary sort is publication date.
Searching for last author has been added to the Single Citation Matcher as the check box , "Only as last author." Last author searching uses data from the Author field, so use the lastname + initial(s) format to enter a name, then click in the "Only as last author" check box. Last author works with personal author names, not corporate author names.
2 Comments:
Hey, as long as I'm posting comments, maybe you can explain why one would WANT to search by last author? I've been whacking PubMed fu for years now and have never needed to search by last author. Now I'm worried that there's some major search strategy I'm missing.
Good question. I might be wrong, but I was told by friend in biomedical research that the last author in a study is usually the person in charge of the whole lab.
If this is the case, perhaps you could look up to see what all so and so's lab has published recently.
If I am wrong, well then I have no idea as to why one would want to search for the last author.
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