Identifying and removing duplicate records from systematic review searches

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 184-188

  Kwon, Yoojin ^a   Lemieux, Michelle ^b   McTavish, Jill ^c   Wathen, Nadine ^d  

^a Toronto Public Library   (Canada)

^b AltaLink   (Canada)

^c Health Sciences Library   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical research standards; Duplicate publication as topic; Publications standards; Review literature as topic

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DUPLICATE PUBLICATION AS TOPIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84945897696     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.103.4.004     Document Type: Article

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