June 16, 2024Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews: The ascendance of Google Scholar as the primary database

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Advanced Google Scholar searching identified all final articles across non-medical systematic reviews, demonstrating comprehensive coverage across disciplines.
Traditional databases yielded 70,011 records after deduplication, whereas advanced Google Scholar queries successfully retrieved all 1116 target articles.
Empirical comparative analysis of 16 reviews indicates that Google Scholar improves reproducibility, though download limitations and search precision remain key challenges.

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Empirical comparative analysis demonstrates complete article retrieval by Google Scholar in social sciences, suggesting its viability as a primary database despite search precision challenges.

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Winn et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e64877b6db6435875d9741 https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241256393

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Empirical comparative analysis demonstrates complete article retrieval by Google Scholar in social sciences, suggesting its viability as a primary database despite search precision challenges.

Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews: The ascendance of Google Scholar as the primary database

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Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews: The ascendance of Google Scholar as the primary database

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