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Definition of terms and time period
Bibliographic search (database)
Exportation of references to Endnote Web™
Analysis of title and abstract (Reading)
Removal of duplicated results
Grouping through Endnote Web™
Bibliometric review of the results
Fig. 1 Research procedure
Web of Science
™ (Thomson Reuters
® ) was selected as the main database for data
collection. It encompasses tools for citation and reference analysis, which allow bibliometric reviews. The database encompasses approximately 12,000 journals. Five
collections were used: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)—availability 1945–Present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—availability 1956–Present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)—availability 1975–Present; Conference Proceedings Citation Index—Science (CPCI-S)—availability 1991–Present;
and Conference Proceedings Citation Index—Social Science & Humanities (CPCISSH)—availability 1991–Present. Thomson Reuters
® make Endnote Web
™ available in the Web of Science Platform. It was used as an analysis tool for the bibliographic references.
After examining the titles by order of relevance, 86 were regarded as related
to the combination of, at least, two of the terms: ‘environmental’, ‘performance’,
‘measurement’ and ‘hospitals’. The abstract, keywords, introduction, development,
results and conclusion of these papers were read next. A total of 76 references were
eliminated, since they fit the exclusion criteria. A set of 10 references was regarded
as relevant to ‘environmental performance measurement’. Table 2 shows the topics
related to the excluded references.
A. P. Blass et al.
Definition of terms and time period
Bibliographic search (database)
Exportation of references to Endnote Web™
Analysis of title and abstract (Reading)
Removal of duplicated results
Grouping through Endnote Web™
Bibliometric review of the results
Fig. 1 Research procedure
Web of Science
™ (Thomson Reuters
® ) was selected as the main database for data
collection. It encompasses tools for citation and reference analysis, which allow bibliometric reviews. The database encompasses approximately 12,000 journals. Five
collections were used: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)—availability 1945–Present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—availability 1956–Present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)—availability 1975–Present; Conference Proceedings Citation Index—Science (CPCI-S)—availability 1991–Present;
and Conference Proceedings Citation Index—Social Science & Humanities (CPCISSH)—availability 1991–Present. Thomson Reuters
® make Endnote Web
™ available in the Web of Science Platform. It was used as an analysis tool for the bibliographic references.
After examining the titles by order of relevance, 86 were regarded as related
to the combination of, at least, two of the terms: ‘environmental’, ‘performance’,
‘measurement’ and ‘hospitals’. The abstract, keywords, introduction, development,
results and conclusion of these papers were read next. A total of 76 references were
eliminated, since they fit the exclusion criteria. A set of 10 references was regarded
as relevant to ‘environmental performance measurement’. Table 2 shows the topics
related to the excluded references.