The Role of Google Scholar in Evidence Reviews and Its Applicability to Grey Literature Searching

作者: Neal Robert Haddaway , Alexandra Mary Collins , Deborah Coughlin , Stuart Kirk

DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0138237

关键词: Systematic reviewGrey literatureString searching algorithmThe InternetBioinformaticsCitation analysisMEDLINEBibliometricsInformation retrievalResource (project management)Medicine

摘要: … provided access to almost three times as many articles free of charge than PubMed (14 and … of Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, SciELO, Web of Science Core Collections and Zoological …

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