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Table 2 Database indexing of scholarly articles included in 21 systematic reviews, alone and with PubMed

From: Information sources for obesity prevention policy research: a review of systematic reviews

Database

Non-PubMed scholarly articles retrieved (of 82)

Total articles retrieved (of 577) when searched in combination with PubMed

Percentage of total articles retrieved (of 577) when searched in combination with PubMed

Number of systematic reviews that searched this database

Google Scholar

82

577

100%

3

Scopus

66

561

97.23%

1

EconLit

61

556

96.36%

8

Web of Knowledge (Web of Science All Databases)

58

553

95.84%

4

Web of Science

(Web of Science core collection)

58

553

95.84%

5

Social Sciences Citation Index

52

547

94.80%

1

Business Source Premier

46

541

93.76%

1

Science Citation Index

31

526

91.16%

1

ScienceDirect (platform, full-text content may vary by institutional subscription)

21

516

89.43%

1

PAIS

13

508

88.04%

6

AgEcon

6

501

86.83%

1

Embase

6

501

86.83%

3

CINAHL (plus with full text)

4

499

86.48%

10

TRIS online (searched TRID)

3

498

85.79%

1

PsycINFO

2

497

86.14%

5

ERIC

1

496

85.96%

3

Sociological Abstracts

1

496

85.96%

1

Australian Education Index

0

495

85.79%

1

Cochrane Library (includes CENTRAL and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

0

495

85.79%

8

Global Health Library

0

495

85.79%

1

LILACS

0

495

85.79%

1