Title
Reference-based search strategies in systematic reviews
Abstract
In systematic reviews, the number of articles found by search strings tend to be very large. In order to limit the number of articles to handle manually, we investigate a search strategy based on references between papers. We first identify a "take-off paper" which is the starting point for the search and then we follow the references from that paper. We also investigate "cardinal papers", i.e. papers that are referenced by many authors, and let the references to those papers guide the selection in the systematic review. We evaluate the search strategies on three published systematic reviews. The results vary greatly between the three studied systematic reviews, from 88% reduction to 92% extension of the original paper set.
Year
Venue
Field
2009
EASE
String searching algorithm,Information retrieval,Systematic review,Computer science,Information and Computer Science
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
25
1.44
References 
Authors
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mats Skoglund124210.16
Per Runeson22869144.10