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Table 4 Number of studies selected based on keyword searches in titles, abstract and keywords fields of four bibliographic databases

From: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis

Bibliographic database

Nr. of Studies

Web of Science

218

Scopus

244

Criminal Justice Abstracts

48

PsycINFO

192

Total

734

Duplicates*

27

Studies analyzed in next phase

707

  1. * Duplicates are records that appear to be different publications based on title, author and journal/book names, but are found to have the same substantive content on closer inspection