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Towards a methodology for cluster searching to provide conceptual and contextual “richness” for systematic reviews of complex interventions: case study (CLUSTER)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 2013
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Title
Towards a methodology for cluster searching to provide conceptual and contextual “richness” for systematic reviews of complex interventions: case study (CLUSTER)
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-13-118
Pubmed ID
Authors

Andrew Booth, Janet Harris, Elizabeth Croot, Jane Springett, Fiona Campbell, Emma Wilkins

Abstract

Systematic review methodologies can be harnessed to help researchers to understand and explain how complex interventions may work. Typically, when reviewing complex interventions, a review team will seek to understand the theories that underpin an intervention and the specific context for that intervention. A single published report from a research project does not typically contain this required level of detail. A review team may find it more useful to examine a "study cluster"; a group of related papers that explore and explain various features of a single project and thus supply necessary detail relating to theory and/or context.We sought to conduct a preliminary investigation, from a single case study review, of techniques required to identify a cluster of related research reports, to document the yield from such methods, and to outline a systematic methodology for cluster searching.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 3%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 171 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 17%
Student > Master 23 13%
Librarian 8 4%
Other 8 4%
Other 40 22%
Unknown 31 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 27%
Social Sciences 33 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 8%
Psychology 14 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 3%
Other 20 11%
Unknown 42 23%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2020.
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#2,397,927
of 23,340,595 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#365
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#22,490
of 206,339 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#6
of 22 outputs
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