Systematic Literature Review Toolkit

Academic literature provides a vast landscape to explore. Students and academics may find the terrain treacherous and hard to navigate. A systematic literature review provides a roadmap and milestones. Xiao and Watson (2019) provide an overview of how to conduct a systematic literature review in eight steps. This archive currently provides tools that future researchers may find helpful for conducting step 1 - Formulate the problem, step 3 - Search the literature, step 4 - Screen for inclusion and step 6 - Extract data. Each step has a folder which contains a short overview report and example data files. Step 3 includes a Jupyter Notebook to help automate the literature review process, basic code editing skills are necessary to modify the notebook. More tools will be developed for step 2 - Develop and validate the review protocol, step 5 - Asses quality, and step 7 - Analyze and synthesize data. This archive provides tools that will enhance the quality, replicability, reliability, and validity of literature reviews.