Table 3 List of sources to be searched for relevant primary literature
Source type | Source name | Indexes | Search filters | Subscription | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indexing platform | Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) | – SCI-expanded (1980-present) – SSCI (1980-present) – CPCI-S (1990-present) – CPCI-SSH (1990-present) – ESCI (2018-present) | Document type: Article, Proceedings Paper, Early Access, Data paper | Duke University | Clarivate |
Indexing platform | Scopus | Scopus | Â | Duke University | Elsevier |
Bibliographic databases | ProQuest Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Sciences Collection | – Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts – Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts – Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Sciences Database – Oceanic Abstracts | Source type: Scholarly Journals, Dissertations & Theses, Conference Papers & Proceedings, Reports | Duke University | ProQuest |
Open discovery citation index | LENS.org | – CORE – Crossref – PubMed – Microsoft Academic | Document type: Journal Article, Conference Proceeding Article, Conference Proceedings, Dissertation, Report | N/A | Cambia |
Open discovery citation index | Dimensions | N/A | Publication type: Article, Proceedings | N/A | Digital Science |
Web-based search engine | Google Scholar via Harzing’s Publish or Perish | Google Scholar | Title search Up to the first 1000 results Search string will be adapted to fit Google Scholar | N/A | Google via Publish or Perish [23] |
Novel literature discovery tool | Inciteful | N/A | Seeded with benchmarking articles Up to first 1000 results No search string required | N/A | Weishuhn [57] |