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Search Engine Overlaps: Do they agree or disagree?
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Bailey, John Charters, Stuart Budgen, David Turner, Mark Zhang, Cheng |
| Abstract | Context: Secondary studies, such as systematic literature reviews and mapping studies, are an essential element of the evidence-based paradigm. A critical part of the review process is the identification of all relevant research. As such, any researcher intending to conduct a secondary review should be aware of the strengths and weakness of the search engines available. Objectives: Analyse the overlap between search engine results for software engineering studies. Methods: Three independent studies were conducted to evaluate the overlap between multiple search engines for different search areas. Results: The findings indicate that very little overlap was found between the search engines. Conclusions of the study: To complete a systematic review, researchers must use multiple search terms and search engines. The lack of overlap might also be caused by inconsistent keyword selection amongst authors. |
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| ISBN | 0769529623 |
| DOI | 10.1109/REBSE.2007.4 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2007-05-20 |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
