Dears,
Is the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) applicable for research in the Computer science field? I noticed that often this method of literature research is used only on medical studies.
If not... What do you suggest as a method for a systematic and structured literature review?
I appreciate your contribution.
Abdullah.
Maybe few of these articles can help :
https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/handle/10366/132168/Ferreras_Martin_Garcia_Merlo_Systematic_review_of_literature_in_LIS_an%20approach_preprint.pdf;jsessionid=6ADEDE277404919CBB0A08D34F649CD2?sequence=1
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8363388
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284330
In addition, I want to emphasize that I have allready wrote 2 papers regarding systematic literature reivew using PRISMA framework in engineering and waiting for reply from the reviewers. There are currently exponential number of papers in Software Engineering and I bet few of them are using PRISMA framework. Try searching scholar with boolean search like: "software engineering" AND "PRISMA" AND .....
You can add up the statements to get more specific search strings that are close to your research area.
POINTER: Don't get to attached to PRISMA strict methodology, you can shape the flow diagram of your systematic review as you wish, but pay attention to Inclusion and Exclusion criteria, because the extraction and including paper in your corpus can be vital for systematic assessment, hence, it can be prone to bias.
Hope I was somewhat helpful.
Regards.
The AMSTAR (Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews) and PRISMA are basically very good and applicable across different research areas.
My recommendation for reading literature reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analysis:
► Green, B. N., Johnson, C. D., & Adams, A. (2006). Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: Secrets of the trade. Journal of Chiropratic Medicine, 5, 101-117.
This is very basic overview of writing literature reviews which is focused towards biomedicine, but is very accessible and covers lots of things that are so basic they are not covered in the other recommended reading texts.
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