A systematic method for identifying references to academic research in grey literature.

ABSTRACT: Grey literature encompasses documents not published in academic journals or books. Some grey literature has substantial societal importance, such as medical guidelines, government analyses and pressure group reports. Academic research cited in such documents may therefore have had indirect societal impact, such as in policy making, clinical practice or legislation. Identifying citations to academic research from grey literature may therefore help assess its societal impacts. This is difficult, however, due to the variety of document and referencing formats used in grey literature, even from a single organisation. In response, this study introduces and tests a semi-automatic method to match academic journal articles with unstandardised grey literature cited references. For this, the metadat

SUBMITTER: Bickley MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9223253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature