As public procurement research is fragmented in many sub-topics, a clear synthesis is lacking, which in turn inhibits the establishment of a clear body of knowledge. To start filling this gap, this systematic review provides an overview of the most influential literature in the field of public procurement. The findings are aimed at providing other researchers with relevant information to synthe...

The majority of the existing research regarding mobile learning in computing education has primarily focused on studying the effectiveness of, and in some cases reporting about, implemented mobile learning solutions. However, it is equally important to explore development and application perspectives on the integration of mobile learning into computing education and identify practical implicati...

This paper presents an investigation of assessment in firstyear Information and Communications Technology (ICT) courses with a focus on Australian universities. This study was part of a project that aimed to identify and disseminate good practices in first-year ICT teaching in Australian universities. Through a systematic review of the last five years of research literature and interviewing 30 ...

Context: An increasing number of publications in product line engineering address product derivation, i.e., the process of building products from reusable assets. Despite its importance, there is still no consensus regarding the requirements for product derivation support. Objective: Our aim is to identify and validate requirements for tool-supported product derivation. Method: We identify the ...

Cyber situational awareness is attracting much attention. It features prominently in the national cyber strategies of many countries, and there is a considerable body of research dealing with it. However, until now, there has been no systematic and up-to-date review of the scientific literature on cyber situational awareness. This article presents a review of cyber situational awareness, based ...

Systematic Review methodology (SRm) is an increasingly popular choice for literature reviews in the Social Sciences. Although, compared to traditional narrative reviews SRm appears timeconsuming and laborious, transparency and replicability of the methodology is argued to facilitate greater clarity of review. Nevertheless, researchers in Industrial, Work and Organizational (IWO) Psychology have...

Systematic reviews are central to the enterprise of evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, traditional ‘Cochrane’ reviews have major limitations, especially when dealing with heterogeneous methodologies or an applied setting. The meta-narrative review (see Soc Sci Med 2005; 61: 417-30) is one of several new methods that seek to address pragmatic policy-level questions via broad-based literatur...

all clinical decisions and research essentially begins with the review of pre-existing literature. it helps to make our clinical decisions based on an overview of all the literature concerning the particular clinical problem. this requires a lot of time and effort, which is becoming scarce in this day and age. literature reviews shorten the time by offering relevant evidence in a concise form. ...

Literature reviews, as their name suggests, explain or briefly describe the work that has been reported on a topic or field. Literature reviews form a central component of research reports and technical articles for an important reason: the research you report should fill (or help fill) a gap in what is known about a topic. Thus, after you introduce your topic to your readers in the report intr...

A systematic review is review of published literature prepared with a systematic approach to minimise biases (systematic errors) and random errors (simple mistakes). It includes information on materials and methods used in published literature; the search strategy and criteria for including trials should be transparent. A systematic review should, therefore, be reproducible and allow critical a...