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May 12, 2024Open Access

Why EXACTLY is Google Scholar bad for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews?

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Let's be clear here, Google Scholar is ill designed for use for systematic reviews . I am not trying to argue otherwise. (Obligatory warning, I am not a real systematic review librarian) But why exactly?

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Aaron Tay (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6a888b6db64358762b2f5 https://doi.org/10.59350/e1f2p-39w75

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