Challenge that we faced and felt lost:

The choice of search terms plays a critical role in the quality of bibliometric analysis. Variability in terminology and the use of synonyms, abbreviations, or alternative spellings across different publications can lead to inconsistent results. We as team were often struggling with the trade-offs between broadening the search to include various keywords and narrowing it to ensure relevance to the research question. This included several back and forth work to simplify the same....

So how did we handle the same, as team lead, it was my responsible to brainstorm regarding this concern!!!

We picked it up this way: To mitigate this challenge, systematic development of search strategies is essential. Using controlled vocabularies like MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for health sciences or keywords from a standardized thesaurus can help ensure consistency in capturing relevant articles (This is very crucial to appraise the time trend and evolution of the vocabulary of the same disease , eg: decay versus dental caries presently. Additionally, combining various search terms and using Boolean operators can help refine search results while minimizing omissions.

Citation: Boulton, A., & Hughes, G. (2016). Bibliometric Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Research Evaluation, 25(1), 102-110.

NOW I REQUEST THE EXPERTS IN THIS DOMAIN TO ANSWER THIS BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE?