Librarians are key factors in evidence synthesis reviews for their expert knowledge on databases, best practices to search various databases, and their clear understanding of the extent to which a term may affect a search by how it is constructed within a search string.
In furthering the shared experience, find previous search hedges below on a variety of topics that may be relevant to psychology reviews. These are helpful for anyone to use as samples or share with students/faculty working on systematic review search hedges - it's way easier than reinventing the wheel!
Search Hedge Examples:
Find examples on ACRL LG and Tufts box on search hedges
Age, Sex and Gender Hedges (PubMed): https://guides.library.uab.edu/pubmed/hedges
Geographic and Indigenous Peoples Hedges: https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/c.php?g=342568&p=5083382
Health Disparities and Minority Health (PubMed): https://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/queries/health_disparities_details.html
LBGTQIA Hedges (PubMed): https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/c.php?g=1159404&p=8462917
Low and Middle Income Country Filters (MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and CENTRAL (Cochrane Library): https://epoc.cochrane.org/lmic-filters
Racial Disparities (PubMed): https://kansascity.libguides.com/racism/search
Transgender Topics (Univ of Minnesota): https://libguides.umn.edu/transgender_topics/search_terms#s-lg-box-wrapper-25158675
Articles with Search Hedge Examples:
Cassidy, L. C., Leenaars, C. H. C., Rincon, A. V., & Pfefferle, D. (2021). Comprehensive search filters for retrieving publications on nonhuman primates for literature reviews (filterNHP). American Journal of Primatology, 83(7), 1–11. APA PsycInfo. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23287
Lozano-Blasco, R., Latorre-Martínez, M., & Cortés-Pascual, A. (2022). Screen addicts: A meta-analysis of internet addiction in adolescence. Children and Youth Services Review, 135, 106373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106373
Soto, A., Heart Sanchez, A. B., Mueller-Alexander, J. M., & Martin, J. (2021). Researching Native Americans: Reflections on Vocabulary, Search Strategies, and Technology. Online Searcher, 45(5), 10–19.
Tompson, L. (2019). Testing filter term performance in PsycINFO to identify evidence syntheses in crime reduction, using the relative recall method. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 15(3), 453–467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-019-09359-0
