Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Date
11-20-2025
College/Unit
WVU Libraries
Abstract
Letter to the Editor and Rebuttal to Winn et al. (2024)
To the Editor and Readership of the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science:
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 (https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241256393). 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.
Digital Commons Citation
Lipke, Laura; Monnin, Jenn; and Fonseca, Catherine Marie, "Rebuttal to Winn et al. (2024) ’s “Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews”" (2025). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 3308.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/3308
Source Citation
Lipke, L., Monnin, J., & Fonseca, C. (2025). Rebuttal to Winn et al. (2024) ’s “Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews”. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006251387675