revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 606-614

  Westgate, Martin J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

data visualization; meta analysis; natural language processing; systematic review; topic models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85074384787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1374     Document Type: Review

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