Automated content analysis: addressing the big literature challenge in ecology and evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1262-1272

  Nunez Mir, Gabriela C ^a   Iannone, Basil V ^a   Pijanowski, Bryan C ^a   Kong, Ningning ^b   Fei, Songlin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

concept map; literature review; machine learning; quantitative review; research synthesis; text mining; topic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978701017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12602     Document Type: Review

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