Computational Literature Reviews
by Janet Salmons, PhD, Research Community Manager for SAGE Methodspace.
Can a computer do my literature review?
The short answer: no. I am sure that some people see the title an imagine the researcher feeding in articles and the computer spitting out a literature review. But it can help! In this interview David Antons and Oliver Salge discuss the roles humans and machines can take to plan and conduct computational literature reviews.
In this interview they explain and develop points made in the article written with Christoph F. Breidbach and Amol M. Joshi, “Computational Literature Reviews: Method, Algorithms, and Roadmap”. The article is part of a feature topic in the Organizational Research Methods journal, Rigorous and Impactful Literature Reviews. See the whole set of open-access articles and interviews with researchers here.
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