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This bibliography and webliography that I compiled this month may also be
of interest.
JOURNALS: ACADEMIC RESEARCH JOURNALS:
JOURNAL RANKINGS AND CITATION ANALYSIS :
PERIODICALS: SCHOLARLY :
RESEARCH :
DATABASES: ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY:
Meet the Googles Studies Google Scholar Metrics and
Comparisons with Scopus, JCR and Web of Science
for Citation Analysis and Journal Ranking and More
[BIBLOOGRAPHY / WEBLIOGRAPHY]
WEBBIB1314
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net-gold/f4fIDREZgvI
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I also started a series of quarterly New Publication Alerts that may be
found at this web address
http://guides.temple.edu/aecontent.php?pid=4480&sid=3934576
Included amongst others are
Information Literacy and Friends
Computers and Electronic Devices in Education
Internet and Database Searching
Reading Skills and Writing Skills
Disabilities
Kinesiology
Public Health
Social Work
Communication Disorders
Therapeutic Recreation
Medicine, Pharmacology and Medical Records Management
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
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Handouts
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Ahmed Abou-Setta, MD wrote:
> An interesting paper just came out that rekindles the question on the
> potential use of Google Scholar in healthcare decision-making.
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> Retrieving Clinical Evidence: A Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar for Quick Clinical Searches Salimah Z Shariff, Shayna AD Bejaimal,
> Jessica M Sontrop, Arthur V Iansavichus, R Brian Haynes, Matthew A Weir, Amit X Garg J Med Internet Res 2013 (Aug 15); 15(8):e164 HTML
> (open access): http://www.jmir.org/2013/8/e164/ PDF (members only): http://www.jmir.org/2013/8/e164/PDF
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> Background: Physicians frequently search PubMed for information to guide patient care. More recently, Google Scholar has gained popularity
> as another freely accessible bibliographic database. Objective: To compare the performance of searches in PubMed and Google Scholar.
> Methods: We surveyed nephrologists (kidney specialists) and provided each with a unique clinical question derived from 100 renal therapy
> systematic reviews. Each physician provided the search terms they would type into a bibliographic database to locate evidence to answer
> the clinical question. We executed each of these searches in PubMed and Google Scholar and compared results for the first 40 records
> retrieved (equivalent to 2 default search pages in PubMed). We evaluated the recall (proportion of relevant articles found) and precision
> (ratio of relevant to nonrelevant articles) of the searches performed in PubMed and Google Scholar. Primary studies included in the
> systematic reviews served as the reference standard for relevant articles. We further documented whether relevant articles were available
> as free full-texts.
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> Results: Compared with PubMed, the average search in Google Scholar retrieved twice as many relevant articles (PubMed: 11%; Google
> Scholar: 22%; P<.001). Precision was similar in both databases (PubMed: 6%; Google
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> Scholar: 8%; P=.07). Google Scholar provided significantly greater access to free full-text publications (PubMed: 5%; Google Scholar: 14%;
> P<.001).
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> Conclusions: For quick clinical searches, Google Scholar returns twice as many relevant articles as PubMed and provides greater access to
> free full-text articles.
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