An empirical assessment of a systematic search process for systematic reviews

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-65

  Zhang, He ^a   Babar, M A ^b   Bai, Xu ^c   Li, Juan ^d   Huang, Liguo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; LITERATURE SEARCH; SEARCH METHOD; SEARCH PROCESS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME SPENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RATING; RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 82955171595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2011.0007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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