Literature Reviews: Modern Methods for Investigating Scientific and Technological Knowledge [Hardcover]

This book begins by introducing the topic of knowledge in literature, including its scientific foundations. Due to the ever-increasing number of scientific publications, literature reviews are becoming more and more essential to stay updated. Literature Reviews describes an innovative system for creating systematic literature reviews, through reviewing, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific and technological literature.

It then discusses systematic literature reviews, content analysis, and literature synthesis separately, before presenting the methodology to combine them in one process. It showcases computational tools to aid in this technique and offers examples of the method in action. Finally, the book takes a new of future developments in the subject.

This book is of interest to graduate students, as well as researchers and academics, helping them to deepen insights and improve skills needed to conduct thorough literature reviews.

Introduction.- Scientific Contribution of Systematic Literature Reviews: Fundamentals in Karl Popper.- Systematic Literature Review.- Literature Analysis.- Literature Synthesis.- Literature Ground Theory (LGT).- Computational Tools For Literature Review, Analysis, and Synthesis.- What to Consider in a Systematic Literature Review: Three Examples from Design Science Research.- Future Perspectives.

Ana Paula Cardoso Ermel holds a Master's degree in Production and Systems Engineering (UNISINOS) and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (URI). She has extensive knowledge in the implementation of quality management systems in the metalworking industry and holds the position of a permanent researcher at the Research Group on Modeling for Learning (GMAP | UNISINOS).

Daniel Pacheco Lacerda&nbsp;holds a Doctoral degree in Production lƒ<