Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Displaying More than 500 results from IEEE Xplore

It is possible to have more than 500 records in search results at IEEEXplore. But using the IEEEXplore 'Organize Results' settings one can view 500 records at max. In order to view the records beyond 500 one needs to change the following fields in the query string (which is a part of the URL):

1. maxdoc
2. page
3. ResultStart

For example you have 1000 records in total and you want to view the results from 501 to 600 (if you display 100 records per page) then these fields will be set as follows:

maxdoc=1000
page=5
ResultStart=500

The URL will look almost like this:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?queryText=..what ever..&ResultCount=100&maxdoc=1000&..many parameters..&page=5&ResultStart=500&..other parameters..

OR

only change the URL of the first page of the results. change the 'maxdoc' field and set it to the maximum records retrieved in your search.

Search Results Format in IEEEXplore

If you are the facing the problem that maximum of 100 records can be displayed from the search results returned by IEEExplore then please go to 'Organize Results' section on the search page where you submitted your search string and change the maximum number of records to 500 in the 'Maximum' field. From this page you can also change the number of records to be displayed per page.

See the following:

"You can change these specifications to view your results in a different format. IEEE Xplore keeps your specifications active until you change them.

Your options are:

  • Citation format consists of document title, author, publication title, and bibliographic information. Citation & Abstract format also includes the first 30 to 40 words of the Abstract.

  • Maximum sets the total number of results found. Choices are 100, 250, and 500.

  • Display...results per page sets the number of results displayed per page. Choices are 25, 50, and 100.

  • Sort by sets the criteria for ordering the results. Choices are Relevance (how well the result matches the search query as determined by IEEE Xplore), Year (numerical order by publication year), and Document Title (alphabetical, ignoring leading articles such as "a", "the", and "an").

  • In...order sets the sort order. Choices are Descending (high to low) and Ascending (low to high).

"
copied from IEEE Xplore Help. The link has further information regarding this.