Descriptor and citation retrieval in the
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McCain, Katherine W.
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Search results for nine topics in the Medical Behavioral Sciences are reanalyzed to compare the overall performance of descriptor and citation search strategies in identifying relevant and novel documents. Overlap percentages between an aggregate "descriptor-based" database (MEDLINE, EXCERPTA MEDICA