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Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2011
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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Title
Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.mr000026.pub2
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Authors

Tanya Horsley, Orvie Dingwall, Margaret Sampson

Abstract

Checking reference lists to identify relevant studies for systematic reviews is frequently recommended by systematic review manuals and is often undertaken by review authors. To date, no systematic review has explicitly examined the effectiveness of checking reference lists as a method to supplement electronic searching.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 336 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 62 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 11%
Researcher 31 9%
Student > Bachelor 23 7%
Student > Postgraduate 18 5%
Other 66 19%
Unknown 106 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 77 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 10%
Social Sciences 24 7%
Psychology 19 6%
Computer Science 11 3%
Other 58 17%
Unknown 121 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 July 2022.
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#1,988,717
of 25,663,438 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,238
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Outputs of similar age
#9,012
of 132,082 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#25
of 109 outputs
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