Identifying evidence for public health guidance: A comparison of citation searching with Web of Science and Google Scholar

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-45

  Levay, Paul ^a   Ainsworth, Nicola ^a   Kettle, Rachel ^a   Morgan, Antony ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation searching; Google scholar; Information retrieval; Literature searching; Public health guidance; Web of science

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIENCE; STANDARDS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SCIENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84959266153     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1158     Document Type: Article

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