Where can I find Emtree terms in Embase?

Open Emtree from the Browse dropdown menu at the top right of any Embase page: There are three options for searching in Emtree: Find Term, Browse by Facet and Query Builder. Use Find Term to identify correct Emtree terms, related terms, and synonyms.

What is the name of the thesaurus of Embase?

Emtree: The deep indexing of Embase. Emtree is Elsevier’s authoritative life science thesaurus. Our experts use this polyhierarchical representation of biomedical knowledge to index the full text of journal articles in Embase.

What is Emtree Embase?

EMTREE. WHAT IS EMTREE? The Emtree thesaurus is a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary for biomedicine and the related life sciences. It includes a whole range of terms for drugs, diseases, medical devices and essential life science concepts. Emtree is used to index all of the Embase content.

What is an Emtree term?

Emtree is a list of subject headings unique to Embase. Biomedical terms are organized by broader and narrower terms for most subjects. Emtree subject headings will retrieve most associated synonyms for the entered term.

What is MeSH and Emtree?

MeSH stands for medical subject headings. Emtree was modeled on MeSH in 1988. They both include broader and narrower terms and synonyms, and are linked to CAS registry and Enzyme Commission numbers. Emtree is used for full-text indexing of all journal articles in Embase. MeSH is used to index articles for MEDLINE.

Does Embase use MeSH terms?

Searching Embase Keywords are automatically mapping to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms). Conduct advanced searches using MeSH terms and subheadings via the MeSH Database.

What is the difference between Embase and PubMed?

What’s the difference between PubMed, MEDLINE and Embase? Embase is a completely separate database to PubMed and MEDLINE, but it does contain all of the articles that can be found in MEDLINE. It also contains over 7 million records that cannot be accessed via MEDLINE/PubMed.

What is De In Embase?

de (exact Emtree term, no explosion) Example: ‘hyperthyroidism’/de.

Is Embase indexing good?

Embase provides reliable access to the content of millions of articles using extensive and authoritative indexing. Indexing is based upon the Elsevier Life Science Thesaurus, Emtree. Each article is indexed with as many terms as required to describe its content, with a special focus on drugs, devices, and diseases.

Is Embase better than MEDLINE?

For example, Embase has more of a focus on drug names and chemical compounds, but MEDLINE has more articles that look at veterinary medicine, dentistry and nursing. Ultimately, it makes sense to search both databases (and more ideally) to ensure you’re not missing any important results.

What is embase good for?

What are MEDLINE and Embase used for? Embase and MEDLINE can be used for most types of biomedical research and searching. This can include systematic review literature searches and literature screening for pharmacovigilance.

Is embase same as Scopus?

Background: Embase is a bibliographic database covering international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. Scopus, likewise, is a bibliographic database, which claims to index more than 60 million records, including over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals and articles-in-press.

What is EMTREE in EMBASE?

Emtree is a list of subject headings unique to Embase*. Biomedical terms are organized by broader and narrower terms for most subjects. Emtree subject headings will retrieve most associated synonyms for the entered term. Terms are included in these areas – drugs, diseases, medical devices, and associated life science concepts.

What are EMTREE terms and how are they used?

Emtree terms are added to articles to describe the content of an article in a uniform way. Articles that are entered in Embase are automatically assigned Emtree terms (using an algorithm). These Emtree terms are then manually checked and corrected by Embase indexers.

How do I find terms in EMBASE?

Terms are included in these areas – drugs, diseases, medical devices, and associated life science concepts The full text of journal articles are indexed in Embase, not just title and abstract as in PubMed Searching Emtree for subject headings Go the Embase home page and click on Emtree

Why EMBASE medical literature database?

You track safety to meet regulations. You uncover connections to push innovations. Embase is a unique medical literature database where comprehensive goes beyond content. With Emtree indexing of full-text content and dedicated search terms, you find all relevant and current results.