A qualitative framework based science mapping and content analysis for efficient literature reviews

摘要

This paper introduces a framework for conducting and writing a high quality literature review. The framework targets a wide audience of researchers especially those that plan to engage in an important research project hence requiring a sharp literature review. For that, the framework relies on several hierarchical funnel fashions to articulate into a unified methodological base, valuable benchmarks from selected systematic and rigorous influent quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in literature reviews. The objective is to conduct easier and more efficient literature reviews in a significant shorter time span. The framework hence attempts to fill the gap of lack of such powerful methodological bases and put the first foundation brick for future methodological and modelling research efforts.