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What can pqdt Thesis Database use to sort the retrieval results?
Proquest dissertations and dissertations (PQDT) dissertations database can sort the retrieval results in the following ways:

1, Relevance: Sort the search results according to the matching degree of the search words, and put the items with the highest relevance to the search words at the front.

2. Full-text availability: rank the retrieval results according to whether the dissertation provides full-text reading availability. First, rank the full-text available items.

3. Publication year: sort the retrieval results according to the publication year of the dissertation, and put the latest items or the oldest items in front.

4. Author: Sort the retrieval results in alphabetical order or reverse order by the author's name, and put the items of A-Z or Z-A at the front.

5. Institution: Sort the retrieval results in alphabetical order or reverse order according to the name of the school to which the dissertation belongs, and put the items of A-Z or Z-A at the front.

6. Literature types: Sort the retrieval results according to the types of dissertations (master's dissertations, doctoral dissertations, etc.). ), and put the specific types of items in front.

Thesis database has the following applications:

1, research reference: Dissertation is a formal paper submitted by graduate students during their degree study, involving many disciplines. Therefore, when doing research or writing, you can get a large number of related papers through the dissertation database and use their achievements and experience to improve your research level.

2. Academic communication: The thesis database not only provides rich academic resources, but also provides a platform for academic communication for users. Users can find peer experts, scholars or other interested people through the database, and ask them for advice or exchange academic questions.

3. Inquire about enrollment information: The dissertations database contains dissertations of various institutions and majors. For candidates, they can learn about the research directions and achievements of different schools and majors by consulting their dissertations, so as to better choose the enrollment units and directions.

4. Non-academic application: In addition to academic research, the dissertation database can also be used in other non-academic fields, such as enterprise market research and government policy formulation. By consulting dissertations, we can understand the current situation and trend of industry development and collect relevant data and information, thus providing help for practical application.