Open AccessDe-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote
Author(s) -
Wichor M. Bramer,
Dean Giustini,
Gerdien B. de Jonge,
Leslie Holland,
Tanja Bekhuis
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the medical library association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1558-9439
pISSN - 1536-5050
DOI - 10.5195/jmla.2016.24
Subject(s) - computer science , information retrieval , data deduplication , workload , bibliographic database , systematic review , database , world wide web , data science , medline , political science , law , operating system
When conducting exhaustive searches for systematic reviews, information professionals search multiple databases with overlapping content. They typically remove duplicate records to reduce the reviewers’ workload associated with screening titles and abstracts; sometimes the reviewers remove the duplicates.This article describes a de-duplication method.