GITMob meeting no. 36

This workshop will be presented by Thyago Nepomuceno, from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. The workshop will take place at FEUP, room L202A, on Tuesday, March 25th 2025, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Description:

Conducting a systematic literature review is a crucial step in consolidating knowledge and exploring any scientific domain. This short course provides an introduction to the principles and techniques of systematic reviews and bibliometric network analysis to map and analyze the relationships between academic publications. Participants will explore essential concepts related to co-citations, co-authorships, co-occurrences, and bibliographic coupling, gaining practical insights into how these networks can reveal patterns and connections within the academic landscape. We will have the opportunity to understand how to define the most appropriate query strings and eligibility criteria for bibliographic searches, methods for filtering the number of relevant papers to review and how to assess the validity of the findings of the included studies. We will discuss practical case studies extracting relevant bibliographic data from SCOPUS, Web of Science and other sources, with examples published in international journals, to demonstrate the application of these concepts in building a robust and comprehensive review with graph-based, distance-based and timeline visualizations from the main software in the area (Vosviewer, Citenet Explorer and Bibliometrix (R)). In the end, we will have insights to construct research agendas based on the coverage of concepts, attractiveness, or research gaps and how bibliometric network tools can be useful in other domains of scientific research beyond systematic reviews.