The “Publication Year” filter can be used to explore articles published in a specific year or time period. Users can choose from the following options (Figure 1):
Option 1 - Predefined Selections
There are two options that can be selected:
- Last 5 years: Publications from the last 5 years
- Last 10 years: Publications from the last 10 years
By selecting one of the two predefined options, the slider and the boxes below are populated accordingly.
Option 2 - Custom Time Period (Slider Scale)
Alternatively, the user can specify a custom time period, by using the slider scale. When scrolling the slider, the results are automatically updated and the content of the boxes below is automatically populated, accordingly.
Option 3 - Custom Time Period (Year Boxes)
Finally, a custom time period can be specified, by inputting dates into the year boxes below the slider scale. It is not necessary to add a year in both boxes, as a minimum or maximum value can be set only. Click APPLY in order to filter the results.
Figure 1: The “Publication Year” filter. Users can choose a predefined selection or a custom time period. In this particular set of results, the first publication date was in 1940 and the last one in 2023.
Use Case: Research on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) treatments published in the last five years.
To explore this use case in Causaly, the powerful and time-saving filters of the Intelligent Search Module will be used.
Initially, the search will include all possible treatments for MS (link).
Subsequently, in order to filter for articles published within the past five years, the “Publication Year” filter will be used (Figure 2). The user can choose one of the following options:
- Select the “Last 5 years” option or
- Drag the left end of the slider scale to 2018 or
- Complete the left box with the year “2018”
The exact search results can be found here.
Figure 2: Refining the results to publications after 2015, using the “Publication Year” Filter.
The articles displayed will only contain publications on MS treatments after 2018 (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Examples of articles related to MS treatments published in the last 5 years.