Restrict spotlight search results for pdfs

I have a great number of academic papers in pdf format. Each paper has a title, an abstract, main text and a number of references. By default spotlight wouldn't distinguish the difference between these portions. But when I type the title of paper, papers that cite that paper also shows up, which is annoy, because I actually only want to locate the paper that has the title. I'm wondering if there is a way to restrict searches in only title, abstract, main text or references in academic papers of pdf format.

Using a Finder search (command-F), which also uses Spotlight, you should be able to tailor your searches to file names as well as extensions, or other criteria.

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