SRLibrarianProblems 🦇

Happy Friday #medlibs #canmedlibs #SRlibs. All of these examples have been coming through my twitter feed - I couldn't help myself 🙃 #SNARC-SIG @carrieprice78

@OpenAlex_org I've been trying to export an RIS file of a ~2000 record search for the past 4 days, using the web interface, but its not working. Is there an ETA on when it might be fixed?

@nealhaddaway @katemsaylor Just wanted to follow up and let you know that it worked fine in Lens. #CitationChaser is definitely easier to work with, and I appreciate the summary table it generates for record keeping. So, once it is fixed, it will be my preferred option 😀

@nealhaddaway @katemsaylor Thanks for the info. I'll try it in Lens, and if I get to the point of wanting to pull my hair out, I'll take you up on the offer of assistance and send you a DM. The forward citations in CitationChaser worked like a charm, and was awesome.

@LibrarianJaded I'll take "Its not always an acronym" for $800, Alex.

Copy-pasta word salad. Getting your ethics approved by PRISMA is a flex I haven't seen before

@nealhaddaway @katemsaylor Is there a timeline for this? In the citation checking stage for a review right now, and am wondering if I can wait it out, or if I should proceed with other ways to do this. Thanks.

@katemsaylor Yes - the Lens API changed and broke the code. We’re hoping to fix it asap but it means a complete app rewrite, unfortunately

@katemsaylor Why do we need another lit review type. And, why does every new lit review type want to have the word systematic in its name. And yet, when describing processes that are part of an existing review type, they went out of their way to use different terminology (e.g. data cleaning).

Human librarian vs Chatgpt4 vs custom gpt librarian bot at constructing keyword search strategy. The human librarian won comfortably..

@aarontay @amylibrarian @Tlibriley They state it explicitly in the #PRISMA statement article, that it is not meant to guide conduct. And they even point you to conducting guides via the citations. I wish reporting the conduct/methodological guide was one of the items in #PRISMA - I think that would help.

@amylibrarian @Tlibriley Not that I want to spoil the fun of some evidence synthesis specialists having fun pointing out such errors but maybe the PRISMA website or statement should have something to warn people off this common mistake?

I know PRISMA is a reporting standard not a conducting standard but is it okay to use the phrase "PRISMA Review Process"? "We then followed the systematic review process"... or "Through the PRISMA review process we identified ...."

Interesting result!

@LibrarianJaded Haha - I struggled with phrasing this. If only I'd had Jaded Librarian's superior writing skills to help me. The task was to find the full-text on the assumption it is real, but the outcome being that the article did not exist 😅

@SRLibProblems Well if I had helped someone track down an article that doesn't exist based on a fake citation, I'd be even more of a genius than I think I am.

Folks that help/teach others to do/find research, help me out with this poll on citation hallucinations from #ChatGPT. Have you helped someone to track down an article fulltext based on a legit-looking citation only to find out the article simply does not exist?

Just saw a review spell #CINAHL using "CIANHL". So, I thought to myself - that must be a rare occurrence - but it is not. A Google Scholar search returned more than 80 results, and the ones I scanned looked like misspellings of CINAHL based on the sentences they were in. #SysRev

@katemsaylor Please tell me you asked them (at least once), "so what exactly do you mean by [insert nonsensical but academic sounding statement here]?"

👇 And, don't use #ChatGPT for your medical research either. I spent an hour helping someone look up fulltext for their citations - turns out they did not exist (though the journal, volume and issue # were all solid - there just wasn't an article by that name or author in it).

@aarontay I'm sure someone will eventually do that, if such a project hasn't already started. But it is interesting .... I'm wondering what the prevalence is even among the folks who see my posts here. I'll throw a poll out now just to see the type of ratio

@SRLibProblems Hmm maybe some sort of big ILL,service tracking ٪ of requests for fictional papers?

@aarontay After the 4 or 5th one we looked up (did not exist), I tried to explain why they shouldn't use it for searching, and also recommended other options of sources to search, but I don't think I got through TBH 🤷‍♀️

@SRLibProblems Sigh. I thought by now everyone knows this

@amylibrarian @library_cait, can you help?

@MCarlyW There is also Medline via the Web of Science interface 😅

@SRLibProblems Ooh I didn't know you could do just Medline via EBSCO!

Going through some of the most recently published #systematicreview papers in #pubmed, with the aim of pointing out some mistakes or things that need clarification and correcting them #medlibs

@carrieprice78 @Katharina_Heldt I think that should be a #MeSH term in 2025. There are lots of reviews that would be indexed with it - no?