1. How to find the relevant articles to our research Sadeghi Ramin, MD Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

2. Importance This is the most important step in any research Never underestimate it When you are not familiar with all aspects of what you are going to study you will be get caught somewhere in the reviewing process

3. GIGO Garbage In  Garbage Out

5. Some tips Always look for review articles in a field These articles gathered many relevant individual articles which can be very hard to find

7. SCOPUS Always use SCOPUS instead of Medline for searching the medical literature SCOPUS Shows the references of articles Shows the citing articles Has links to full text articles

11. Group Work Find all article regarding isolated primary lymphedema of the arm Find relevant articles regarding a research topic in your field using SCOPUS