Improving the Reliability of Literature Reviews: Detection of Retracted Articles through Academic Search Engines.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, a multitude of scientific publications on health science are being developed that require correct bibliographic search in order to avoid the use and inclusion of retracted literature in them. The use of these articles could directly affect the consistency of the scientific studies and could affect clinical practice. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the capacity of the main scientific literature search engines, both general (Gooogle Scholar) and scientific (PubMed, EMBASE, SCOPUS, and Web of Science), used in health sciences in order to check their ability to detect and warn users of retracted articles in the searches carried out. The sample of retracted articles was obtained from RetractionWatch. The results showed that although Google Scholar was the search engine wi

SUBMITTER: Pastor-Ramon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9140878 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature