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Novel citation-based search method for scientific literature: application to meta-analyses #MMPMID26462491
Janssens ACJW; Gwinn M
BMC Med Res Methodol 2015[]; 15 (ä): ä PMID26462491show ga
Background: Finding eligible studies for meta-analysis and systematic reviews relies on keyword-based searching as the gold standard, despite its inefficiency. Searching based on direct citations is not sufficiently comprehensive. We propose a novel strategy that ranks articles on their degree of co-citation with one or more ?known? articles before reviewing their eligibility. Method: In two independent studies, we aimed to reproduce the results of literature searches for sets of published meta-analyses (n?=?10 and n?=?42). For each meta-analysis, we extracted co-citations for the randomly selected ?known? articles from the Web of Science database, counted their frequencies and screened all articles with a score above a selection threshold. In the second study, we extended the method by retrieving direct citations for all selected articles. Results: In the first study, we retrieved 82 % of the studies included in the meta-analyses while screening only 11 % as many articles as were screened for the original publications. Articles that we missed were published in non-English languages, published before 1975, published very recently, or available only as conference abstracts. In the second study, we retrieved 79 % of included studies while screening half the original number of articles. Conclusions: Citation searching appears to be an efficient and reasonably accurate method for finding articles similar to one or more articles of interest for meta-analysis and reviews. Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0077-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.