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Table 4 Selection rate for the different bibliographic sources

From: Evidence of the impact of noise pollution on biodiversity: a systematic map

Type of bibliographic sources

Bibliographic sources

Exported citations (A)

Included articles after screening stages

Systematic map (B)

2019–2020 group (C)

Total ratio regarding exported citations (B + C)/A (%)

Bibliographic databases

Web of Science Core Collection

8544

(7859a + 685b)

860 (48%)

115 (82%)

11

Scopus

12045 (11,186a + 859b)

306 (17%)

18 (13%)

3

Total

20,589

1166 (65%)

133 (9%)

6

Web-based search engines

Google Scholar

3403 (3293a + 110b)

143 (8%)

4 (3%)

4

BASE

600

25 (1%)

3 (2%)

5

CORE

327

50 (3%)

0

15

TOTAL

4330

218 (12%)

7 (5%)

5

Call for literature

83

21 (1%)

1 (< 1%)

27

Bibliographies of relevant reviews

4025

341 (19%)

0

8

Specialist websites

9

9 (< 1%)

0

100

Other manually included articles

39

39 (2%)

0

100

TOTAL

29,075

1794

141

7

  1. High score (in bold); low score (in italic)
  2. a First search until 2018
  3. b Update 2019–2020