A rapid method to increase transparency and efficiency in web-based searches

摘要: Many online search facilities allow searching for academic literature. The majority are bibliographic databases that catalogue published research in an iterative, semi-automated manner, e.g. Web of Science Core Collections, which indexes articles selected journals. Other resources, such as Google Scholar, identify by using engines crawl the internet potentially relevant information. Often, systematic reviewers wish to document their searches transparency or later screening. Indeed, is a cornerstone review methodology. Whilst typically users extract results citations bulk, several other key Scholar and organisation websites, do not this: must be extracted individually, often prohibitively time consuming. Here, we describe novel methods downloading from websites web-based into comprehensive free-to-use software. Citations can then integrated procedures along with those traditional databases. These substantially increase repeatability when resources. They may also significantly reduce resource requirements therefore represent significant efficiency.