Furthermore, all references lists in identified trials were scrutinized for studies not indexed in the electronic databases.
The copy-and-paste generation has another tedium-busting digital tool in its arsenal: RefME is a book-barcode scanning app that speeds up the task of creating, formatting and managing citations, references lists and bibliographies of academic source material.
It further develops Eugene Garfield's notions of a field's 'citation potential' defined as the average length of references lists in a field and determining the probability of being cited, and the need in fair performance assessments to correct for differences between subject fields.
From an initial 14,434 records, a total of 95 articles, reports, and guidelines were eventually retained for full analysis (61 from bibliographic databases, 32 from the gray literature, and two identified based on references lists of retained sources and fitting inclusion criteria).
In addition to the studies captured from references lists, our database search using keywords yielded studies by Zhang et al. [23], Goel [24], di Gangi [25], Verma et al. [26], Abdelgawad and Abdulhai [27], Abdelgawad et al. [28] and Miller-Hooks et al. [29].
Examination of titles and abstracts, and further examination of the references lists in the retrieved papers and in other sources led to a preliminary list of 69 potentially relevant studies.
