This book begins by introducing the topic of knowledge in literature, including its scientific foundations. Due to the ever-increasing number of scientific publications, literature reviews are becoming more and more essential to stay updated. Literature Reviews describes an innovative system for creating systematic literature reviews, through reviewing, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific and technological literature. It then discusses systematic literature reviews, content analysis, and literature synthesis separately, before presenting the methodology to combine them in one process. It showcases computational tools to aid in this technique and offers examples of the method in action. Finally, the book takes a new of future developments in the subject. This book is of interest to graduate students, as well as researchers and academics, helping them to deepen insights and improve skills needed to conduct thorough literature reviews.
Author(s): Ana Paula Cardoso Ermel, Daniel Pacheco Lacerda, Maria Isabel. W. M. Morandi, Leandro Gauss
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 214
Tags: Research Skills
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction
References
2 Scientific Contributions of Systematic Literature Reviews: Fundamentals in Karl Popper
2.1 Objective Knowledge and the Karl Popper Worlds
2.2 Meanings of Knowledge Production in the Light of Popper’s Three Worlds
References
3 Systematic Literature Review
3.1 Literature Review (LR)
3.2 Systematic Literature Review (SLR)
3.3 Critical Assessment of SLR Methods
3.4 Closing Remarks
References
4 Literature Analysis
4.1 Literature Analysis
4.2 Scientometric Analysis
4.3 Bibliometric Analysis
4.3.1 Research Performance
4.3.2 Scientific Mapping
4.4 Content Analysis
4.5 Closing Remarks
References
5 Literature Synthesis
5.1 Literature Synthesis
5.2 Configurative Synthesis
5.2.1 Critical Interpretive Synthesis
5.2.2 Integrative Review
5.2.3 Narrative Synthesis
5.2.4 Realist Review
5.2.5 Meta-interpretation
5.2.6 Meta-summary
5.2.7 Meta-narrative Review
5.2.8 Ecological Triangulation
5.2.9 Grounded Theory
5.2.10 Meta-ethnography
5.2.11 Meta-synthesis
5.2.12 Framework Synthesis
5.3 Aggregative Synthesis
5.3.1 Meta-analysis
5.4 Closing Remarks
References
6 Literature Grounded Theory (LGT)
6.1 Conceptual Framework and Organization Structure
6.2 Stakeholders
6.3 Design (Stage 1)
6.3.1 Research Question Formulation (Step 1.1)
6.3.2 Definition of Review Scope and Type (Step 1.2)
6.3.3 Definition of the Research Team (Step 1.3)
6.3.4 Definition of the Search Strategy (Step 1.4)
6.3.5 Formulation of the Research Protocol (Step 1.5)
6.3.6 Bias Assessment (Step 1.6)
6.4 Review (Stage 2)
6.4.1 Search and Eligibility (Step 2.1)
6.4.2 Quality Assessment (Step 2.2)
6.4.3 Reliability Assessment (Step 2.3)
6.4.4 Organization of the Corpus of Analysis (Step 2.4)
6.5 Literature Analysis (Stage 3)
6.5.1 Scientometric Analysis (Step 3.1)
6.5.2 Bibliometric Analysis (Step 3.2)
6.5.3 Content Analysis (Step 3.3)
6.6 Literature Synthesis (Stage 4)
6.6.1 Aggregative Synthesis (Step 4.1)
6.6.2 Configurative Synthesis (Step 4.2)
6.7 Results (Stage 5)
6.8 Update (Stage 6)
6.9 Closing Remarks
References
7 Computational Tools for Literature Review, Analysis, and Synthesis
7.1 Writing Review, Analysis, and Synthesis Protocols
7.2 Accessing and Exporting Metadata and Full Texts
7.3 Reference Management Software
7.4 Software for Scientometric and Bibliometric Analysis
7.5 Software for Content Analysis
7.6 Writing the Report, Presenting Findings
7.7 Final Remarks
References
8 What to Consider in a Systematic Literature Review: Three Examples from Design Science Research
8.1 Justifying Systematic Literature Review
8.2 Developing and Presenting Synthesized Knowledge
8.3 Tying It Together
8.4 Points of Further Attention in Executing SLR
References
9 Future Perspectives
