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”Your search retrieved 5000 hits” – how to manage large search results

Getting large search results in literature searches can be overwhelming. In this workshop you will learn about strategies and tools that can help you manage the results.

Time: Thu 2024-12-05 10.15 - 12.00

Location: Zoom – No registration is required

Language: English

Participating: Magdalena Svanberg and Mattias Vesterlund, KTH Library

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You are writing the cover of your thesis or working on a review article and you’ve put effort into constructing a search strategy that should find the relevant literature. The search resulted in a large number of hits. You might wonder what the next step is. What should you do with the result? 

In this workshop we present different strategies to handle a large search result, both manual strategies and strategies where you use tools and programs. The purpose is to facilitate the process of sifting through the relevant articles. If you conduct a systematic review, the focus is on a transparent and reproducible process that does not omit relevant articles. In other literature reviews, the focus may rather be on making the process easier and more efficient.

We will discuss:

  • Setting up a workflow for handling the results 

  • Inclusion and exclusion criteria 

  • Software to facilitate the screening, for example Rayyan 

  • Software for visualization, for example VOSviewer

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