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S2 – Systematic Literature Review: A Methodology for Scientific Surveys

Andrea Omicini

Systematic literature review: why it is needed, and how it is done in medical research and in software engineering.

course of the deck
Course_icon.svg Intelligent Systems Engineering (Module 1) (2nd cycle, 2024/2025) — Andrea Omicini
used in the lectures
Courselecture_icon.svg Wed 7 May 2025, 09:00
same deck in other editions
Coursedeck_icon.svg S2 – Systematic Literature Review: A Methodology for Scientific Surveys — Intelligent Systems Engineering (Module 1) 2025/2026
reference publication
Publication_icon.svg Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain (article in journal, 2007) — O. Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, David Budgen, Mark Turner, Mohamed Khalil
Publication_icon.svg Performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering (paper in proceedings, 2006) — David Budgen, Pearl Brereton
Publication_icon.svg Logic-based Technologies for Multi-agent Systems: A Systematic Literature Review (article in journal, 2021) — Roberta Calegari, Giovanni Ciatto, Viviana Mascardi, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Models and Languages as Software Integrators (article in journal, 1996) — Paolo Ciancarini
Publication_icon.svg Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (edited volume, 2008) — Julian P.T. Higgins, Sally Green
Publication_icon.svg Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review (article in journal, 2009) — Barbara Kitchenham, O. Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Mark Turner, John Bailey, Stephen Linkman
Publication_icon.svg Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A tertiary study (article in journal, 2010) — Barbara Kitchenham, Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen, O. Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen Linkman
Publication_icon.svg Systematic Review in Software Engineering: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Going (paper in proceedings, 2012) — Barbara A. Kitchenham
Publication_icon.svg Cumulative Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Trials for Myocardial Infarction (article in journal, 1992) — Joseph Lau, Elliott M. Antman, Jeanette Jimenez-Silva, Bruce Kupelnick, Frederick Mosteller, Thomas C. Chalmers
Publication_icon.svg Information, Physics, and Computation (book, 2009) — Marc Mézard, Andrea Montanari
Publication_icon.svg Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews (article in journal, 1994) — Cynthia D. Mulrow
Publication_icon.svg A guide to systematic literature reviews (article in journal, 2009) — Alison Nightingale
Publication_icon.svg Nature-Inspired Coordination Models: Current Status and Future Trends (article in journal, 2013) — Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: I. How to Get Started (article in journal, 1993) — Andrew D. Oxman, David L. Sackett, Gordon H. Guyatt
Publication_icon.svg The Logic of Scientific Discovery (book, 2002) — Karl Raimund Popper
Publication_icon.svg Systematic literature reviews (article in journal, 2005) — Adrian White, Katja Schmidt