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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2013 Aug;51(8 0 3):S58–S65. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31829b1d10

Table 1.

Description of the databases we queried, including major computer science, statistics, social science network, as well as medical literature repositories.

Web of Knowledge Citation and indexing service provided by Thomson Reuters. Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Preprint and working paper repository hosted by a consortium of institutions. Covers law, economics, political science, policy, sociology, and related fields.
IEEExplore Database of papers published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Covers computer science, engineering, and information management.
PubMed Database and indexing service maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Covers life sciences and biomedical topics.
JSTOR Online journal storage system, JSTOR (short for Journal Storage), was founded in 1995. Covers over a thousand academic journals including mathematics, statistics, social sciences, and the humanities.
ACM Digital Library (ACM) Database of papers published by Association for Computing Machinary (ACM) journal, newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Covers on computer and information science.
Arxiv Preprint archive maintained by Cornell University Library. Covers mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance.