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Typology of Duplicate Records in Systematic Review Context

Note: There is no advertisement or marketing component in this post. Those who conduct systematic reviews are aware that after the search is done in more than one database, it is natural to have duplicate records; however, these are not the only duplicates that the review team deal with. Duplicates occur in several stages ofContinue reading “Typology of Duplicate Records in Systematic Review Context”

Structure of Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews: Line by Line versus Block by Block versus Single-Line

Over the past 18 years, I have had this discussion several times with information specialists, researchers, students, and colleagues. Some seem to be defending a single approach at the beginning of the conversation, but as we go forward, they change their minds. Unsurprisingly, all three approaches of structuring the search strategies are useful at theContinue reading “Structure of Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews: Line by Line versus Block by Block versus Single-Line”