Searchable Fields in PsycINFO

Last update: 20 May 2011,
by Maureen Bell

NOTE: These abbreviations apply only to the EBSCOhost interface for PsycINFO

The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following:
Title, Translated Title, Classification Codes, Abstract, Keyword, Subjects, and Author.

The table below lists all searchable fields - with examples.

Definitions of fields are listed separately

Searchable tag

Description

Example

Abstract
Searches the abstract summaries for keywords.

AB Art Therapy

Article ID
Contains a fixed identifier that uniquely identifies an article-by-article published record.

AD 13

Age Group (Exact)
Searches for the exact match of age groups identified in a document.

AE "Infancy (2-23 mo)"

Author Affiliation
Searches for keywords in the institutional affiliation of the person(s) responsible for creation of the document.

AF Clark University

Age Group
Searches age groups identified in a document; values consist of the following:

Childhood (birth-12 yrs)

Neonatal (birth-1 mo)

Infancy (2-23 mo)

Preschool Age (2-5 yrs)

School Age (6-12 yrs)

Adolescence (13-17 yrs)

Adulthood (18 yrs & older)

Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs)

Thirties (30-39 yrs)

Middle Age (40-64 yrs)

Aged (65 yrs & older)

Very Old (85 yrs & older)

Note: When searching Age Groups via the picklist limiter, searching on a broad category automatically retrieves records containing all subcategories as well.

AG Infancy

Intended Audience
Searches the exact Intended Audience type in book and chapter records. Values consist of the following:

General Public
Juvenile
Psychology: Professional & Research

AI Juvenile

Accession Number
Searches the exact Accession Number.

AN 2004-11265-001

Author
Searches the exact author name in last/first name format.

AR Jones, Peter

Author
Searches keywords in the author and institutional author fields.

AU Ryan

Book Type
Searches for the exact description of the book genre

BK Handbook/Manual

Corporate Author
Searches the name of the corporate author if the document was not authored by individuals.

CA Quality of Life Group

Classification
Searches the exact Classification Code numbers; the first 2 or 3 digits can be exploded to retrieve all categories in common. Note: For a complete list of Classification Codes click below: Classification Codes

CC 2300
or
CC 23*

Conference Information
Searches for keywords in the Conference and Conference Note fields.

CF Infant Studies

Subject
Searches the exact subject headings (also called index terms, or descriptors) which describe the focus of the document.

DE Political Attitudes

DOI
Searches on the Digital Object Identifier.

DI 10.1186/1745-0179-3-20

Dissertation Number
Searches the exact Dissertation Order Number.

DN AAI9521694

Date of Publication
Searches the date of publication.

DT 2004
or
DT 200406

Release Date
Searches the date the record was released into the PsycINFO database in YYYYMMDD format.

ED 200401

Full Text

FT N

Reference Available
Perform an exact search for the value "Y" indicating that an article contains references.

FR Y

Grant/Sponsorship
Searches Grant Information.

GR Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Accepted Date
Performs a search on the date an article was accepted by the journal for publication.

HA 20080620

First Submitted Date
Performs a search on the date an article was submitted to the journal for publication.

HB 20080312

First Posted Date
Performs a search on the date an article was first made publicly available.

HF 20080627

Revised Date
Performs a search on the revision date of an article that had previously been published.

HR 20080515

International Standard Book Number
Searches for the ISBN assigned to the document.

IB 1-55766-228-2

Issue
Searches the Issue/Part for a particular issue of a journal.

IP 1

International Standard Serial Number
Searches for the exact ISSN assigned to the document; can be searched with or without the dash.

IS 02678373
or
IS 0267-8373

Non-Journal Publication
Searches a flag indicating that the source is not a journal/periodical.

JB Y

Journal Publication
Searches a flag indicating that the source is a journal/periodical

JA Y

Journal
Searches the exact journal title.

JN Academic Therapy

Keywords
Searches for keywords in the uncontrolled content description of the document.

KW Paranoia

Language
Searches the language of publication of an article; values consist of the following:

Afrikaans
Arabic
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Malaysian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian

LA French

Word in Major Subject Heading
Searches for keywords in the index terms of the "Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms."

MJ Experimentation

Major Concepts
Searches for exact matches in the index terms of the "Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms."

MM Experimentation

Methodology
Searches Type/format of research study.

MR Empirical Study
OR
MR 0400

Media Type
Searches for the exact media type in the publication field.

MT Print

Notes
Performs a keyword search for words within the notes and conference notes fields.

NT History

Publisher
Searches for words in the book or journal publisher name; displays in the Source field.

PB Simon & Schuster

Page Count
Searches for the page length, or total number of pages for a journal article.

PC 12

Number of Pages
Searches the range of page numbers for journal articles, chapters, reports, dissertation abstracts, books, or the total pages of books or reports.

PG 3-24

Population Location
Searches the location related to the content of the document.

PL France

Population
Searches the exact population related to the content of the document; values consist of the following:

Human
Animal
Male
Female
Inpatient
Outpatient

PO Human

Publication Type
Searches the exact document type; values consist of the following:

All Journals
Peer-Reviewed Journal
Peer-Reviewed Status-Unknown
All Books
Authored Book
Edited Book
Encyclopedia
Dissertation Abstract
Electronic Collection

Note: Searching the document type 'Secondary Publication' via the picklist limiter automatically searches the document type 'Dissertation Abstract' as well. The 6000+ records searchable via 'electronic collections' represents the complete contents of the APA's PsycCRITIQUES database.

PT Journal

Year of Publication
Searches the publication year of the source document; can be used in date range searching.

PY 2004
or
PY 2002-2004

Document Type
Performs and exact search for the records document type. values consist of the following:

Abstract Collection
Bibliography
Column/Opinion
Comment/Reply
Editorial
Erratum/Correction
Letter
Obituary
All Chapters
Original Chapter
Reprinted Chapter
All Journal articles
Original Journal Article
Reprinted Journal Article
Publication Information
Review

PZ Journal Article

Peer Reviewed
Performs a search for the value "Y" indicating that the article is from a peer-reviewed publication.

RV Y

Reviewed Item
Searches for words within the information in the reviewed item field.

RW Psychology

Reprint Year
Searches the year a book was reprinted in CCYY format; displays in the Source field.

RY 1997

Series Title
Searches for words within the Series Title field.

SE Psychology

Supplemental Data
Searches for words within the Supplemental data field.

SL 3-D modeling images

Journal Title
Searches words in the book or serial title.

SO Academic

Start Page
[ Searches the start page of an article.

SP 271

Series Title[exact]
Searches for the exact series title in the series title field.

ST "Psychology of decisions and conflict"

Subjects
Searches words in the subject headings (also called index terms, or descriptors) which describe the focus of the document.

SU Aesthetics

Title
Searches words in the document title.

TI Therapy

Table of Contents
Searches words in the Table of Contents field in book records.

TC Diagnosis

Tests & Measures
Performs a keyword search for names of published tests and measures mentioned in the Tests & Measures field.
Note: "2005, this field may now contain the indicator "Appended" when the named instrument is appended to the original journal article, which may be searched"

TM PTSD CHECKLIST
or
TM Appended

All Text
Performs a keyword search of all the
database's searchable fields. Using
the TX field code will cause the search to look for the keyword in the full text as well as the citation record.

TX Therapy

Volume
Searches for a particular volume of a journal.

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Definition of Fields

The following table explains the contents of each field in a PsycINFO record's detailed display (not all fields are listed in every record).

Field name	Description
Title	Title of the document
Translated Title	The English-language translation of the title of a document written in a non-English language.
Series Title	The series title of a book or book chapter's "parent" book. May consist of a non-English title. If present, appears in Book or Chapter records only./td>
Author(s)	The names of all individual persons responsible for creation of the document. Appears as last name followed by a first name or initial, middle name or initial, author role. If no role is present, the role may be assumed to be "author".
Institutional Author(s)	The names of all institutions responsible for creation of the document.
Address	The institutional affiliation of the first-listed person responsible for creation of the document.
Source	The source in which the article was published and other publication information.
Page Count	This field contains the page length, or total number of pages for a journal article. This is a separate and distinct field from the Pagination field.
Publisher	Contains publisher URL when available
Reviewed Item	Specifies the information on a book review in the PsycINFO record.
ISSN	The International Standard Serial Number assigned to the document.
ISBN	The International Standard Book Number assigned to the document.
Order Number	UMI Dissertation Order Number; if present will appear in Dissertation records only.
Document Link URL	The Uniform Resource Locator where an online version of the document, a full-text version of the document, or additional information, is available.
Digital Object Identifier	A permanent identification system for intellectual property found on the Internet. The identifier contains the naming convention registered to a DOI registration agency (currently, the International DOI Foundation).
Language	The language of the document.
Keywords	A concise, uncontrolled content description of the document currently formatted as keywords. May be thought of as an 'enhanced title'.
Abstract	A summary or abstract of the document; appears in all Journal Article, Report, Book and Chapter records, and Dissertation records from 1995 to present.
Subjects	Index terms from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms which describe the primary and secondary focus of the document. Major descriptors are preceded by an asterisk (*).
Classification	Four-digit codes and their corresponding PsycINFO classifications that describe broad areas of the field of psychology.
Population	A standardized description of specific populations related to the content of the document.
Location	A standardized description of continents, regions, and country names related to the content of the document.
Age Group	A standardized description of specific population age groups related to the content of the document.
Tests & Measures	Contains the names of published tests and measures mentioned in the source document and whether it is appended to the source document.
Intended Audience	Identifies the intended audience of the document; appears in Book and Chapter records.
Conference	Contains the name and other information about a conference at which the content of the document was presented.
Conference Notes	Information about additional conferences at which the content of the document was presented, or information about a conference from which the content of the document was derived.
Notes	Miscellaneous information about the document, including reprint citations or information about forms of other previous publications of the content.
Methodology	Contains the Type/format of research study
Supplemental Data	Contains supplemental data or other information not found in the print source. This field is present in journal article records only.
Publication Type	Identifies the general type of the document such as Authored Book, Edited Book, Journal Article, etc. The first entry in this field consists of 'Media Type' which identifies the broad, physical medium of the document or item such as "Print (Paper)".
Document Type	The content type of the item being indexed
Book Type	Description of the book genre
Release Date	Date the record was released into the PsycINFO database in YYYYMMDD format.
Accession Number	A unique number used to identify each PsycINFO record.
Number of Citations in Source	The number of times this document was cited by other documents.