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.学术文献拥有广袤的研究版图可供探索，但学生与科研人员往往会因其体量庞杂而难以厘清脉络、无从下手。系统性文献综述（systematic literature review）可提供清晰的研究路线图与关键里程碑。Xiao与Watson（2019）曾系统梳理了开展系统性文献综述的八大步骤。本数据集归档目前已提供若干工具，可助力后续研究者完成八大步骤中的第1步（明确研究问题）、第3步（文献检索）、第4步（文献纳入筛选）与第6步（数据提取）。每个对应步骤均设有专属文件夹，内含简短的概述文档与示例数据文件。第3步配套了一份Jupyter Notebook，可辅助实现文献综述流程的自动化，使用者需具备基础的代码编辑能力方可对该笔记本进行自定义修改。后续还将为第2步（制定并验证综述方案）、第5步（质量评估）与第7步（数据分析与综合）开发更多配套工具。本归档所提供的工具，可有效提升文献综述的质量、可复现性、可靠性与研究效度。