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Table 2 Blocking criteria specified for ASySD to identify potential duplicate citations

From: The Automated Systematic Search Deduplicator (ASySD): a rapid, open-source, interoperable tool to remove duplicate citations in biomedical systematic reviews

Order

Blocking criteria (100% match on specified fields)

Round 1

(Title AND Pages) OR

(Title AND Author) OR

(Title AND Abstract) OR

DOI

Round 2

(Author AND Year AND Pages) OR

(Journal AND Volume AND Pages) OR

(ISBN AND Volume AND Pages) OR

(Title AND ISBN)

Round 3

(Year AND Pages AND Volume) OR

(Year AND Issue AND Volume) OR

(Year AND Pages AND Issue)

Round 4

(Author AND Year) OR

(Title AND Year) OR

(Title AND Volume) OR

(Title AND Journal)