Google Scholar as replacement for systematic literature searches: good relative recall and precision are not enough.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent research indicates a high recall in Google Scholar searches for systematic reviews. These reports raised high expectations of Google Scholar as a unified and easy to use search interface. However, studies on the coverage of Google Scholar rarely used the search interface in a realistic approach but instead merely checked for the existence of gold standard references. In addition, the severe limitations of the Google Search interface must be taken into consideration when comparing with professional literature retrieval tools.The objectives of this work are to measure the relative recall and precision of searches with Google Scholar under conditions which are derived from structured search procedures conventional in scientific literature retrieval; and to provide an

SUBMITTER: Boeker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840556 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature