Finding Articles on Your Topic Finding articles on a specific topic is a multi-step process, and the process will differ depending on your needs. This guide will focus on helping you find journal articles in M.D. Anderson Library. The way to find articles on a specific topic is to use periodical, or journal, indexes.
Indexes list citations to articles organized by topic.
Simply browsing through journals hoping to find articles on your topic is not at all efficient. Return to top. At the minimum, all journal indexes will include citations to articles. A citation provides the author and title of the article and the title, volume number, page numbers and date of the journal in which the article appears. Some indexes also include abstracts, or summaries of articles.