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Enter the study fields that you want to search for. As for the Authors field, you can enter multiple fields separated by AND or OR, for example psychology OR "clinical medicine".

Note: Study field designations can vary and overlap, so you should use this option to narrow down other searches rather than blindly rely on its results.

Enter any words that must specifically occur in the title of a publication.

Note: Prior to Publish or Perish version 7.21, this field required that you entered the full article title. Thanks to improvements in the Microsoft Academic API this is no longer necessary and you can enter any combination of title words, similar to all other data sources.

Enter any additional words that must all appear in the abstract of the returned papers. This can be used to narrow down the search for a specific set of papers.

For tips on search syntax, see General/keyword search.

Perform the search. If possible, the search is satisfied from the local Publish or Perish cache; this saves time and reduces the load on Microsoft Academic. If no cache entry for the search exists or the entry is older than the maximum cache age, then the search is forwarded to Microsoft Academic. After the results are received from Microsoft Academic, the local cache is automatically refreshed.

Tip: You can change the maximum cache age in the Preferences: Microsoft Academic dialog box, which is accessible through the Tools > Preferences command.

Submit the search directly to Microsoft Academic, bypassing the local Publish or Perish cache. This may be useful if you suspect that Microsoft Academic may have newer information than is available through the local cache. When the results are returned from Microsoft Academic, the local cache is automatically refreshed.

Note: It is not useful to perform multiple direct lookups for the same query shortly after another; this merely increases the load on Microsoft Academic. We recommend that you only use the Search Direct function as a last resort.