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Hand Searching

Hand Searching is a systematic literature review technique that involves manually examining the full texts of academic publications, particularly in journals or conference proceedings, to identify relevant studies not easily retrievable through electronic database searches.

112

Publications

9.9K

Citations

377

Authors

210

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

21

Variants

Manual Searching

Parents

Publications

112

De-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote

Wichor M. Bramer, Dean Giustini, Gerdien B. de Jonge et al. · Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA · 2016 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments

Caroline B. Terwee, Elise P. Jansma, Ingrid I. Riphagen et al. · Quality of Life Research · 2009 · 883 citations · Full text

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Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews

Rebecca Ganann, Donna Ciliska, Helen Thomas · Implementation Science · 2010 · 767 citations · Full text

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Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey

Víctor M. Montori, Nancy L Wilczynski, Douglas R. Morgan et al. · BMJ · 2004 · 432 citations · Full text

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Librarian co-authors correlated with higher quality reported search strategies in general internal medicine systematic reviews

Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Ann Farrell, Leah C. Osterhaus Trzasko et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 2015 · 335 citations

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1–5 of 112

Authors

377

  1. NL
    Nancy L Wilczynski

    McMaster University, Canada

    5 publications · 682 citations

    5

    h-index

  2. DG
    Dean Giustini

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    4 publications · 2.4K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. RB
    R. Brian Haynes

    McMaster University, Canada

    4 publications · 664 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. PS
    Padhraig S. Fleming

    Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 168 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. WM
    Wichor M. Bramer

    Erasmus MC, Netherlands

    3 publications · 2.2K citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 377

Institutions

210

  1. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    4.2K citations

  2. Cochrane

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    956 citations

  3. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    181 citations

  4. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    2.2K citations

  5. University of British Columbia Hospital

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    2.2K citations

  6. Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    202 citations

  7. Erasmus MC

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    4.3K citations

  8. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    705 citations

1–8 of 210

Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 8 publications · 404 citations

    8

    h-index

  2. Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA

    4 publications · 2.2K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. BMC Medical Research Methodology

    4 publications · 264 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

    4 publications · 528 citations

    4

    h-index

  5. Nursing Standard

    3 publications · 109 citations

    3

    h-index

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