A Practical Guide to Conducting Systematic Literature Review Using R Software

Abstract

A systematic literature review (SLR) is a highly rigorous inquiry of existing literature that addresses a formulated question. The review systematically searches, identifies, selects, appraises, and synthesizes research evidence relevant to the question that makes an SLR rigorous. Practicing this rigorous scientific inquiry can be overwhelming for first-time users. In the effort to assist the researchers, tools are introduced to ease their SLR inquiries. Therefore, this paper aims to provide the reader with practical steps to conduct a systematic review using R software. In this demonstration, we describe a systematic review and its challenges briefly. Then, readers are guided thoroughly with the steps from managing until sharing the bibliographic information with other co-researchers to conduct a systematic literature review. Every step of the procedure is explained in detail supported by the codes for R and screenshots of the output.