You would like to do a systematic search of the scientific literature on a given topic. But a wild caveat appears – your familiarity (or lack there of) with the topic will bias your search, while your field lacks in standardized terminology and is fragmented into multiple nomenclature clusters.

Grames et al. (2019) devised a method to address this (you can read the article here). A gentle introduction to both R and litsearchr package that trivializes the analyses can be found on Library Carpentry.

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