Epistemonikos
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-17
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Epistemonikos foundation
Location of system headquarters:
Santiago, CL
Year of launch:
2012
Type:
Bibliographic database
X-Handle:
Description of search system (by system owner)
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.
Total coverage:
1.68M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
-4.95%
Subject coverage:
Medicine (82.74 %); Nursing (4.58 %); Dentistry (2.87 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1958–2022
Record types:
4
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
0
Query
Latency with short query:
3.05 seconds
Latency with long query:
3.75 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
4
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
250 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
100 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
4
Results filters:
4
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
17.48%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
0.19%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
300000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
100
Export formats:
1
API:
open
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1
