biblcheck.time: Time needed to conduct bibliographic checking

In nealhaddaway/predicter: A Tool to Estimates the Time Needed to Conduct a Systematic Review or Systematic Map

Time needed to conduct bibliographic checking

Description

This function calculates the time needed to screen the bibliographics of a selection of other relevant literature reviews in a systematic review, based on the inputs of the time needed for title screening, abstract screening, retrieval and full text screening ('tscreen.time', 'abscreen.time', 'retrieval.time', and 'ftscreen.time' respectively, see relevant function), the number of unique search results after de-duplication ('uniqart.number'), and the number of literature reviews whose reference lists are checked for relevant records at all stages ('reflists'). This function assumes an average of 50 references per reference list, but this value can be changed via 'bibliography.volume'. Where full dual screening of all records is used, this will equal a percentage of 100 abstracts being checked. Default values are provided based on the empirical study of environmental systematic reviews by Haddaway and Westgate (2018) https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13231.

Usage

biblcheck.time(tscreen.time = 10.94552, abscreen.time = 7.107911,
  retrieval.time = 1.813837, ftscreen.time = 11.70102,
  uniqart.number = 8497.06, reflists = 10, bibliography.volume = 50)

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