Identifying evidence for public health guidance: a comparison of citation searching with Web of Science and Google Scholar

To examine how effectively forwards citation searching with Web of Science (WOS) or Google Scholar (GS) identified evidence to support public health guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.Forwards citation searching was performed using GS on a base set of 46 publications and replicated using WOS.WOS and GS were compared in terms of recall; precision; number needed to read (NNR); administrative time and costs;...