Additional file 4: Selected databases for searches in non-English languages
All searches will be conducted using the search terms in non-English languages. Only Web of
Science and Scopus translate all the titles and abstracts from their original language to
English. Therefore, they will be searched using the corresponding terms in English language.
Multi-language Databases
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC DATABASES AND PLATFORMS
Web of Science (WoS)
Scopus (Elsevier)
ON-LINE SEARCH ENGINE
Google Scholar (GS)
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS / INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
Language-specific databases
Chinese(a)
French
German
Spanish &
Portuguese
China Academic
Persée (scientific
EconBiz
Scielo (scientific
Journal Full-Text
journals &
(economic
journals mainly
bibliography
from Brazil &
Database (CNKI, a conference
key national e-
proceedings funded initially funded by
Latin America,
publishing project
by the French
the German
maintained by
in China,
Ministry of Higher
Research
Foundation for
maintained by
Education &
Foundation, DFG)
Research Support
Tsinghua Tongfang Research)
of the State of São
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Knowledge
Paulo, Brazil)
Network
Technology Group)
China Doctoral
SUDOC
Dissertations Full- (Integrated
Swissbib (catalog
e-revistas
of the Swiss
(scientific journals
Text Database
documentation
university libraries
mainly from Spain
(CNKI, a key
system of French
and the Swiss
& Portugal,
national e-
universities)
national library)
maintained by
publishing project
CSIC, Spain)
in China,
maintained by
Tsinghua Tongfang
Knowledge
Network
Technology Group)
Revues.org (Open
Osterreichischer
RCAAP
source journals and
Verbundkatalog
(repository of open
book collections in
(catalog of the
access scientific
humanities and
universities and
bibliography
social sciences in
regional and state
maintained by the
French language)
libraries in Austria)
Government of
Portugal)
CAIRN.info
Greenpilot (search
RECOLETA
(French, Belgian
portal including
(repository of open
and Swiss
German scientific
access scientific
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scientific journals
databases in food,
bibliography
from 120
agricultural, and
maintained by the
francophone
environmental
Government of
publishers)
sciences)
Spain)
Érudit
ECLAC/CEPAL
(bibliographic
(catalog of the
information from
United Nations
the Université de
Economic
Montréal, the
Commission for
Université Laval
Latin America)
and the Université
du Québec à
Montréal in
Canada)
(a) Only two databases were selected for Chinese language searches because only they
provided access to full-texts from TUM.
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