TY - JOUR
T1 - Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching
T2 - the TARCiS statement
AU - the TARCiS study group
AU - Hirt, Julian
AU - Nordhausen, Thomas
AU - Fuerst, Thomas
AU - Ewald, Hannah
AU - Appenzeller-Herzog, Christian
AU - Avenell, Alison
AU - Bethel, Alison
AU - Booth, Andrew
AU - Carroll, Christopher
AU - Clark, Justin
AU - Glanville, Julie
AU - Golder, Su
AU - Hausner, Elke
AU - Horsley, Tanya
AU - Kaunelis, David
AU - Kirtley, Shona
AU - Klerings, Irma
AU - Koffel, Jonathan
AU - Levay, Paul
AU - McCain, Kathrine
AU - Metzendorf, Maria Inti
AU - Moher, David
AU - Murphy, Linda
AU - Rethlefsen, Melissa
AU - Riegelman, Amy
AU - Rogers, Morwenna
AU - Sampson, Margaret J.
AU - Schneider, Jodi
AU - Solomons, Terena
AU - Weightman, Alison
N1 - Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: no specific support for the submitted work. CA-H received payments to his institution for a citation searching workshop by the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. JH received consulting fees from Medical University Brandenburg and payments for lecturing from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, and Netzwerk Fachbibliotheken Gesundheit. From the TARCiS study group: JS received support from Alfred P Sloan Foundation; was funded by the US National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Office of Research Integrity, United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; received book royalties from Morgan and Claypool; received consulting fees or honorariums from the European Commission, Jump ARCHES, NSF, and the Medical Library Association; received travel support by UIUC; contributes to the CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern) Working Group; has non-financial associations with Crossref, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, the National Information Standards Organisation, and the Center for Scientific Integrity (parent organisation of Retraction Watch); and declares the National Information Standards Organisation as a subawardee on her Alfred P Sloan Foundation grant G-2022-19409. JG received payments for lecturing by York Health Economics Consortium. MJS received consulting fees at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health and National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and for lecturing and support for attending a meeting at Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care; and has a leadership role as secretary of the Ottawa Valley Health Library Association. AW received payments to her institution for a citation analysis workshop run via York Health Economics Consortium. SK declares non-financial interests as a member of the UK EQUATOR Centre and a coauthor of the PRISMA-S reporting guideline and was funded by Cancer Research UK (grant C49297/A27294); the current work was unrelated to this funding. PL is an employee of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. MR received payments by the Medical Library Association and declares non-financial interests as a member of the PhD programme affiliated with BMJ Publishing Group. ABo is a co-convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group and has authored methodological guidance on literature searching. All the other authors have no competing interests to disclose.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Evidence syntheses adhering to systematic literature searching techniques are a cornerstone of evidence based healthcare. Beyond term based searching in electronic databases, citation searching is a prevalent search technique to identify relevant sources of evidence. However, for decades, citation searching methodology and terminology has not been standardised. An evidence guided, four round Delphi consensus study was conducted with 27 international methodological experts in order to develop the Terminology, Application, and Reporting of Citation Searching (TARCiS) statement. TARCiS comprises 10 specific recommendations, each with a rationale and explanation on when and how to conduct and report citation searching in the context of systematic literature searches. The statement also presents four research priorities, and it is hoped that systematic review teams are encouraged to incorporate TARCiS into standardised workflows.
AB - Evidence syntheses adhering to systematic literature searching techniques are a cornerstone of evidence based healthcare. Beyond term based searching in electronic databases, citation searching is a prevalent search technique to identify relevant sources of evidence. However, for decades, citation searching methodology and terminology has not been standardised. An evidence guided, four round Delphi consensus study was conducted with 27 international methodological experts in order to develop the Terminology, Application, and Reporting of Citation Searching (TARCiS) statement. TARCiS comprises 10 specific recommendations, each with a rationale and explanation on when and how to conduct and report citation searching in the context of systematic literature searches. The statement also presents four research priorities, and it is hoped that systematic review teams are encouraged to incorporate TARCiS into standardised workflows.
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U2 - 10.1136/bmj-2023-078384
DO - 10.1136/bmj-2023-078384
M3 - Article
C2 - 38724089
AN - SCOPUS:85192855764
SN - 0959-8146
JO - BMJ
JF - BMJ
M1 - e078384
ER -