Identifying the most important databases for "One Health" Related Systematic or Scoping Reviews

Objectives: Identify the most important databases to search when conducting a One Health Systematic or Scoping Review.

Methods: Methods include four approaches:
1) Identify any scoping or systematic reviews that have One Health as a topic and record what databases have been used.
2) Conduct a search of journals on the One Health Platform (and if applicable, other One Health resources that list important journals) to see what databases cover the largest quantity of the listed journals. Ulrich's Periodical Directory will be primarily used to identify database indexing.

Results:
114 synthesis reviews were selected across 5 databases (PubMed, Scopus, Biosis, CabDirect, and Web of Science Core Collection. Highest percentage databases used in these reviews were the following (percentage of total databases): Medline (83% via PubMed) 24%
Web of Science Core Collection 14%
Google Scholar (Search Engine ) 10%
Scopus 8%
Embase 4%
Cab Abstracts + Global Health 4%. The second method could only identify 11 of the 18 journals from the One Health Platform as being indexed. Of the 11 indexed journals, the following databases have indexed the most of the one health journals: Scopus 82%
CAB Abstracts/Global Health 73%
Web of Science 45%
Biosis 45%
Embase 45%
PubMed 36%

Conclusions: The One Health approach is extremely important for the future of Public Health. Identifying which databases best support such a multidisciplinary approach will be extremely important to any librarians that are creating One Health guides or conducting a systematic or scoping review. Many of the studies examined had a very inconsistent manner of identifying databases and in some cases, some reviews seemed to use redundant databases like Medline (OVID) and PubMed. Many synthesis reviews utilized a multidisciplinary database and regionally focused databases like African Journals Online.