Search where you will find most: Comparing the disciplinary coverage of 56 bibliographic databases

This paper introduces a novel scientometrics method and applies it to estimate the subject coverages of many of the popular English-focused bibliographic databases in academia. The method uses query results as a common denominator to compare a wide variety of search engines, repositories, digital li...

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Published in:Scientometrics 2022-05, Vol.127 (5), p.2683-2745
Main Author: Gusenbauer, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic data bases
Bibliographic literature
Bibliographies
Computer Science
Digital libraries
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Information Storage and Retrieval
Librarians
Libraries
Library Science
Literature reviews
Medicine
Meta-analysis
Researcher subject relations
Researchers
Sampling
Scientific papers
Scientometrics
Search engines
Systematic review
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