1. UntitledTo use or not to use tools in systematic reviews? A survey on tool usage among systematic reviewers in education
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Zhang, Qiyang, Pellegrini, Marta, Marsili, Francesco, and Neitzel, Amanda
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Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Education - Abstract
This study aims to investigate user perceptions of software tools to conduct title and abstract screening and full-text review in systematic reviews by administering a survey to researchers conducting systematic reviews. With technological development, in the past few years, dozens of software tools were developed to assist the search and screening stages in systematic reviews. Usage of such new tools is starting to increase in the educational field, yet little is known about the actual pattens of preferred tools and reasons behind these choices and preferences. This survey study aims to investigate educational researchers’ opinions on software tools to conduct title and abstract screening and full-text review in systematic reviews. A previous study (Pellegrini & Marsili, 2021). identified the software tools used in educational systematic reviews and assessed the quality and properties through a feature analysis. The purpose of the present study is to determine the user perceptions of the identified tools, such as Abstrackr, Covidence, ASReview, RevMan, Rayyan, EPPI-Reviewer, DistillerSR, Paperfetcher, CitationChaser. This survey helps us understand tool usage in systematic reviews because this section is usually not well-described in published studies (Zhang & Neitzel, 2022). Knowing the current tool use status in the field of education would lay the basis for future research comparing features of different tools. The research results could also lead to more and better systematic reviews.
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- 2022
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