Find authors and their publications. You can search by author in almost any database or search engine. Make sure you search for all variations of the name.
Most academic literature databases allow you to search using the 'author' field. You can search for surnames and combine them with initials and first names. Note that several authors may have the same surname, and even the same first name and initials. See the 'Name variants' box.
Some databases use 'author identifiers' to find publications of a specific author. This is very useful to avoid similar names of different authors.
ORCID is an universal author identifier
ResearcherID is an author identifier of Web of Science
The advanced search option of your database allows you to search by author. You can also combine an author search with a title search.
Searching with an author identifier is the best option, if the author has an author ID and the database you are using facilitates searching for this identifier.
In other cases you will have to search for the author name. It is important to search with all the used name variants of an author.
Example:
Search author 'Theodora Michaela Jones' (fictional)
Theodora Jones
Theodora M Jones
Theodora Michaela Jones
T Jones
T M Jones
T Michaela Jones
Be aware that authors can have name variants in common. In this case for example
'T Jones' can also be used for Tiffany Jones or Theodore Jones
