Software Tools to Support Visualising Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

A systematic literature review is a sine qua non for performing significant research in the selected field. However, it is a complex, error-prone and time-consuming process. In order to reduce the probability of errors’ occurrence during the literature review process, as well as to make it easier for researchers to perform this process, tools that support systematic literature review (SLR) are developed. Visualisation is essential for the conducting of SLR. There is a lack of researches about the software tools that could support SLR process by means of visualisation. This paper focuses on identifying visualisation tools that are currently used in practice to support SLR process. In the paper, we present and com- pare four tools in order to provide valuable information on current visualisation trends in the context of SLR, best practices, and preferable characteristics of visualisation tools for SLR.