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. 2022 Jul 9;11:26. doi: 10.1186/s13750-022-00279-7

Table 2.

The results of literature searching and duplicate removal, indicating the number of articles from each source that were included after the full-text screening stage

Source Date Searched Total results Duplicates removed Relevant full-texts Relevance rate (%)
SCOPUS 15.9.20 10,646 40 881 8.3
Web of Science Core Collection 15.9.20 8953 6544 137 5.7
ProQuest Natural Science (Published) 15.9.20 9078 8690 11 2.8
ProQuest Natural Science (Grey Literature) 15.9.20 395 40 26 11.3
Google Scholar 15.9.20 500 72 13 3.0
Organisational Websites 19.4.21–27.4.21 1238 0 23 1.9

Relevance is the percentage of de-duplicated results that were included after full-text screening. An additional 22 articles were excluded during the coding stage