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Pearl-growing is good to use in the orientation phase when you don't know the right search terms. You start a search and then see if the (list of) results, the Web sites or documents themselves, contain different and perhaps better search terms.

Example from Web of Science:

You found the article below during your search for literature on the social aspects of nutrition in the elderly. As you can see, this article contains many possible search terms tha

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In Web of Science and Scopus, you can also sort your results by number of citations. The most cited author on a topic is also likely to be an important author within the relevant field. Use the author name in the Author field to search further for publications.