A comprehensive literature review has always been an essential first step of every meaningful research. In recent years, however, the availability of a vast amount of information in both open-access and subscription-based literature in every field has made it difficult, if not impossible, to be certain about the comprehensiveness of one's survey. This subsequently can lead to reviewers' questioning of the novelties of the research directions proposed, regardless of the quality of the actual work presented. In this situation, statistics derived from the published literature data can provide valuable quantitative and visual information about research trends, knowledge gaps, and research networks and hubs in different fields. Our tool provides an automatic and rapid way of generating insight for systematic reviews in any research area.
翻译:全面的文献审查一直是每一项有意义的研究的基本第一步,然而,近年来,每个领域的公开获取文献和订阅文献都提供了大量信息,使得很难(如果不是不可能的话)确定调查的全面性,从而可能导致审查者质疑拟议的研究方向的新颖性,而不论实际工作的质量如何,在这种情况下,从出版的文献数据中得出的统计数据可以提供关于不同领域的研究趋势、知识差距、研究网络和中心的宝贵数量和视觉信息,我们的工具为任何研究领域的系统审查提供了自动和快速的洞察方法。