Author ORCID Identifier
Laura Lipke https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-5843
Jenn Monnin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-2814
Catherine Fonseca https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7671-7652
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
Fall 11-20-2025
Keywords
Systematic review, rebuttal, Google scholar, search strategy, library, non-medical reviews, methodology, reproducibility, validity, reliability
Abstract
Letter to the Editor and Rebuttal to Winn et al. (2024)
We are writing to express concerns regarding the article, Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews: The ascendance of Google Scholar as the primary database (Winn et al., 2024a). Our concerns are numerous, and include issues involving the research questions, data availability and validity, representations of evidence synthesis methods, and the disregard for established scholarship which refutes the reliability, transparency and reproducibility of Google Scholar searches for evidence synthesis reviews.
Publisher Attribution
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 1– 4 © The Author(s) 2025 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/09610006251387675 journals.sagepub.com/home/lis
Recommended Citation
Lipke, L., Monnin, J., Fonesca, C. (2025). Rebuttal to Winn, et al. (2024)'s "Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews" Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 0 (0). https://doi-org.proxy.binghamton.edu/10.1177/09610006251387675
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