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. 2012 Dec;10(6):511–517. doi: 10.1089/bio.2012.0034

Appendix Table A3.

Counts for Figure 3

  Overlap with Other Searches    
  0 1 2 3 4 5 Sum Effort*
PubMed 1.6% 0.4% 1.4% 0.8% 0.6% 0.2% 5% 1126
NIH RePORTER 2.1% 1.2% 1.4% 0.8% 0.5% 0.1% 6% 3300
Google Direct 6.4% 10.4% 7.9% 5.6% 2.7% 0.4% 33% 518
Google Lists 12.3% 7.3% 5.5% 3.0% 1.5% 0.2% 30% 1100
CTSA Search 8.3% 6.3% 1.7% 1.7% 1.0% 0.0% 19% 300**
AAMC Search 11.4% 6.3% 5.8% 3.6% 1.8% 0.3% 29% 685***
Johnson Study 7.8% 12.2% 15.7% 19.1% 11.3% 1.7% 68% 115
*

Effort is roughly equal to things searched (article abstracts, grants abstracts, single web pages).

**

Estimate from 60 CTSA universities×5 pages per university.

***

Estimate from 137 medical institutions×5 pages per institution.