Gopikrishnan Kailas

https://opensource.com/article/18/6/open-source-literature-review-tools

PRISMA Check list could be useful. Here is the link

https://www.equator-network.org/?post_type=eq_guidelines&eq_guidelines_study_design=systematic-reviews-and-meta-analyses&eq_guidelines_clinical_specialty=0&eq_guidelines_report_section=0&s=+

Adrian Wallwork (2011) English for Writing Research Papers. Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7922-3

Dear Gopikrishnan,

Check out PRISMA and other reporting guidelines.

https://www.equator-network.org/?post_type=eq_guidelines&eq_guidelines_study_design=systematic-reviews-and-meta-analyses&eq_guidelines_clinical_specialty=0&eq_guidelines_report_section=0&s=

You can also consult credibility assessment tools like:

* AMSTAR 2:

https://amstar.ca/

* ROBIS:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/projects/robis/robis-tool/

* QASR:

Preprint Quality Assessment of Systematic Reviews QASR

If you want to learn more, don't hesitate to use Cochrane Handbook.

It is widely considered as the most exhaustive source of knowledge in this area.

https://training.cochrane.org/cochrane-handbook-systematic-reviews-interventions

Best,

Paweł

Hi Gopikrishnan, I agree with others regarding the checklists. In addition here are some tools that can make your life easy. You can either purchase fancier tools or use the items that are already free. You can ask your institution if these tools are provided. Librarians would also help with the search terms (checking if what you have is correct, and type of databases that you should see etc.)

1. I used the forest plot generator (free): https://www.evidencepartners.com/resources/forest-plot-generator/ (you can see the plots I created in my publication: Article Uterine cancer in breast cancer survivors: a systematic review

2. https://www.covidence.org/ : I used this for an ongoing project. It is super easy to review articles, and also have several people review at the same time. The results (decisions) are automatically generated after we review. So, it's easy to resolve conflicts.

3. https://training.cochrane.org/interactivelearning/module-1-introduction-conducting-systematic-reviews

I hope this helps

Best,

Akemi

Gopikrishnan Kailas

https://opensource.com/article/18/6/open-source-literature-review-tools