The citation and abstract fields from the combined database search results on Ovid were exported in Excel Sheet format.
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The Excel Sheet was sorted by publication title.
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Any brackets preceding a publication title (used in Ovid to denote non-English content) were removed and the Excel Sheet was re-sorted by publication title.
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Duplicates were identified manually and highlighted.
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The Excel Sheet was then sorted by author.
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Duplicates were identified manually and highlighted.
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Abstracts were used in steps 4 and 6 above to verify duplicate references, as needed. In some cases, if abstracts were not available, the full-text articles were retrieved.
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Unique references were moved into a separate Excel Sheet to serve as the benchmark set.