PRISMA

What is PRISMA?

PRISMA is an acronym for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.

It is an approach used for systematic search of the literature for SLR and meta-analysis.

The advantage of using this kind of approach is for repeatability, reproducibility.

Where can I use the PRISMA approach?

PRISMA approach can be used by a PhD scholar as part of Chapter-2 of the thesis - Literature Review for a systematic review of the literature. This will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of a research scholar to review the extant literature.

Also, this approach is used for SLR and meta-analysis studies.

Stay tuned for further details on each of the following sections:

• Database Use

• Boolean search

• Criteria to span existing material

• Use Reference Management like Mendeley to remove duplicate records

• Content Analysis (for SLR)

• How to establish Rigor and use a quality approach to filter research papers

• Categorising an exclusion criteria

Is PRISMA the only approach to search systematically for research papers?

There are other approaches used in various domains. Stay tuned for details on the same.

contact here for the PRISMA template.