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When compared with professional literature search interfaces (PubMed, OvidSP, Web of Knowledge) independently from the underlying data sources, Google Scholar has some major limitations: Search fields of the simple and advanced search interfaces are limited to expressions not exceeding a length of 256 characters.
Modern Web search engines still have many limitations: search terms are not disambiguated, search terms in one query cannot be in different languages, the retrieved media items have to be in the same language as the search terms and search results are not integrated across a live stream of different media channels, including TV, online news and social media.
Our review has several limitations: search boundaries, the subjectivity introduced by the quality and grading criteria (although this involved independent reviewers and disagreement checks), and the reliance on data provided by relatively low quality quantitative research (although high and moderate strength evidence was only taken from high and medium quality studies).
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Limitations of search data include varying online access and Internet search usage across different demographic, socioeconomic and geographic subpopulations, and searches for abortion by individuals who are not seeking abortion services.
The total number of documents extracted from Scopus database with terms related to "groundwater" in the article titles, without imposing limitations to search for specific countries was 43,657 documents.
Those cases concerned the Fourth Amendment's limitations on search and seizure, however, not the delicate interplay of federal and state law.
However, understanding the limitations of search query surveillance peculiar to and beyond this study is critical for future research.
Due to all these limitations, the search for alternative or complementary treatment for snakebites deserves attention.
For datasets with many taxa, computational limitations of search strategies become confounded with this bias.
However, we do recognise the following limitations: the search was confined to English language publications only; and it excluded unpublished and 'grey' literature domain.
Some of these improvements, such as the last one, should address the performance limitations of search engine APIs specific for literature.
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