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Wanyama, Seperia B.; McQuaid, Ronald W.; Kittler, Markus – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Systematic literature reviews are common in social research for integrating and synthesising existing research. This paper argues that the outcomes of such reviews are affected by the choice of bibliographic databases. It presents evidence of substantial variation across three large electronic databases (Scopus, Web of Science and EBSCO) in a…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Information Retrieval, Literature Reviews, Periodicals