Context Systematic mapping studies are used to structure a research area, while systematic
reviews are focused on gathering and synthesizing evidence. The most recent guidelines for …

Context Many researchers adopting systematic reviews (SRs) have also published papers
discussing problems with the SR methodology and suggestions for improving it. Since …

Background In recent years, the literature associated with healthcare big data has grown
rapidly, but few studies have used bibliometrics and a visualization approach to conduct …

Background The labour intensive and error prone nature of the systematic review process
has led to the development and use of a range of tools to provide automated support. Aim …

Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become the foundation of evidence-based
software engineering (EBSE). Conducting an SLR is largely a manual process. In the past …

CONTEXT: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are an important component to identify
and aggregate research evidence from different empirical studies. Despite its relevance …

Systematic review is a widely used research method in software engineering, and in other
disciplines, for identifying and analysing empirical evidence. The method is data intensive …

Despite the increasing popularity of systematic literature reviews in Software Engineering,
several researchers still indicate it as a costly and challenging process. Aiming at alleviating …

Systematic Reviews (SRs) have recently intensified in Software Engineering. However,
there is a lack of work that makes explicit how the process to perform SR is in practice. The …

Sustainable smart cities (SSCs) have developed various services and technologies with
multi-stakeholderism under multiple names. The characteristics of SSCs are specified by …