This document provides an overview of systematic literature reviews in information technology. It defines a systematic literature review as a means to identify, evaluate, and interpret all relevant research on a topic. Systematic reviews aim to identify gaps, summarize existing evidence, and position new research. The document outlines the standard methods for conducting a review, including developing a protocol, searching for studies, assessing quality, extracting and synthesizing data. It notes potential publications of review results and provides examples of published systematic reviews on software-related topics.

1. Dr. Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib
Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology, University of
Malaya
SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE
REVIEW IN INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY

2. Introduction
What is a systematic literature review
(SLR)?
A systematic literature review is a
means of identifying, evaluating, and
interpreting all accessible research
relevant to a particular research
question, or topic area, or phenomenon
of interest (Kitchenham, 2004).

3. Introduction
To whom: Students, Academicians and
Researchers
For what?
 To identify gaps in current research
 To keep up to date with the latest research
 To provide a background in order to appropriately
position new research activities.
 To summarize the existing research evidence
concerning a technology (techniques/tools)

4. Introduction
Different from traditional – non-systematic review

5. Problem Faced
Time and effort consuming
Require a lot of skills in searching data,
data handling, analysis and interpretation
Lack of domain knowledge
Non-standardized keywords and difficulty
in identifying synonyms

6. Methods/Protocol
Planning the review
Identification of the
need for a review
Development of a
review protocol.
Conducting the
review
Identification of
research
Selection of primary
studies
Study quality
assessment
Data extraction &
monitoring
Data synthesis.
Reporting the review

7. Methods/Protocol
Identification
of the need for
a review
Problems are transformed into
answerable questions.
Development
of a review
protocol.
Describes each phase of the
review process.
Selection of
primary
studies
A systematic strategy is used
to search for studies.
Study quality
assessment
The methodological quality of
all studies is appraised before
they are included in the review.
Data
extraction &
monitoring
To collect all the information
needed to address the review
questions and the study quality
criteria
Data synthesis
Results are synthesised by
either a narrative summary,
and where appropriate, using
meta-analysis.

8. Potential Publication
Published Items in Each
Year
Source:
ISI Web of Science

9. Potential Publication
Citations in Each Year
Results found: 209
Sum of the
Times Cited : 1180
Sum of Times
Cited without
self-citations : 959
Citing Articles : 915
Citing Articles
without self-
citations : 825
Average
Citations per
Item : 5.65
h-index : 18

10. Examples Of Paper
 Cloud computing service composition:
A systematic literature review
 Knowledge-based approaches in software
documentation: A systematic literature review
 A systematic literature review of software
requirements prioritization research

12. References
 Kitchenham, B. (2004). Procedures for
Performing Systematic Reviews. Joint Technical
Report TR/SE-0401.
 Riaz, M., Sulayman, M., Salleh, N. and Mendes,
E.
 Kitchenham et al., (2007). Guidelines for
performing Systematic Literature Reviews in
Software Engineering. Version 2.3 EBSE-2007-
01.(2010) Experiences conducting systematic
reviews from novices' perspective in Proc. of the
Evaluation and Assessment in Software
Engineering (EASE 2010) Keele University, UK,