Design and implementation of Metta, a metasearch engine for biomedical literature retrieval intended for systematic reviewers
Open Access
- 10 January 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Health Information Science and Systems
- Vol. 2 (1), 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2501-2-1
Abstract
Individuals and groups who write systematic reviews and meta-analyses in evidence-based medicine regularly carry out literature searches across multiple search engines linked to different bibliographic databases, and thus have an urgent need for a suitable metasearch engine to save time spent on repeated searches and to remove duplicate publications from initial consideration. Unlike general users who generally carry out searches to find a few highly relevant (or highly recent) articles, systematic reviewers seek to obtain a comprehensive set of articles on a given topic, satisfying specific criteria. This creates special requirements and challenges for metasearch engine design and implementation.Keywords
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