Hour 1 · SLR · Step 4 of 1527%
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Discovery & supplementary search
Where you actually run the search.
~10 min
Publishers commonly expect Scopus and Web of Science. Access is often institutional. If your target journal allows alternatives, you may use Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar — but you must justify the choice and report the search transparently.
Document everything
Date of search, database, exact string, filters applied, number of hits. This is what reviewers will ask for.
