Reference Data for "Towards maritime transport decarbonisation in developing countries: A systematic literature review"

This dataset supports the systematic literature review (SLR) entitled "Towards maritime transport decarbonisation in developing countries: A systematic literature review" It includes two files:

SLR Reference - Selected Studies.xml — an EndNote-compatible XML file containing the 55 studies that were selected for full review and synthesis. These references represent peer-reviewed publications relevant to maritime decarbonisation in the context of developing countries, retrieved and curated according to the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme.

Retrieved Literature from Protocol-Driven Search - No Duplicates.csv — a CSV file listing all 787 records, excluding duplicates, initially retrieved through the protocol-driven database search. The search was conducted across four scholarly databases: Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, and Compendex, using structured keyword combinations and Boolean operators. The file includes bibliographic metadata such as titles, authors, sources, abstracts (where available), and source database identifiers.

These files allow full transparency and reproducibility of the literature selection process and co-occurence mapping using the VosViewer application. No proprietary or full-text content is included—only bibliographic metadata.