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A package to automatise citation collection and screening in Systematic Reviews

Description

Secondary research is of paramount importance to summarise the latest developments in every research field. Nevertheless, conducting a structured collection and analysis of literature (i.e., a Systematic Review) is becoming exceedingly demanding in terms of time and human resources.We propose an integrated framework that streamlines and automates the citation data collection and title/abstract screening phases of Systematic Reviews, limiting human intervention to a minimum. The framework employs automatic citation collection from online scientific databases and importation tools to import citation data collected manually; it uses a Bayesian active machine-learning algorithm to screen relevant citation, requiring human input only at the beginning of the process and to review uncertain classifications. Finally, the framework provides a tool to generate search queries with online scientific databases based on an already labelled corpus of citation data.


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