Variation in number of hits for complex searches in Google Scholar

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 143-145

  Bramer, Wichor Matthijs ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information storage and retrieval; Reproducibility of results; Review literature as topic; Search engine

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84964330647     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.104.2.009     Document Type: Article

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