A rapid review method for extremely large corpora of literature: Applications to the domains of modelling, simulation, and management     

Mohsen JahangirianAuthor Vitae  Tillal Eldabi^{Author Vitae} 《International Journal of Information Management》2011,31(3):234-243

While literature reviews with a large-scale scope are nowadays becoming a staple element of modern research practice, there are many challenges in taking on such an endeavour, yet little evidence of previous studies addressing these challenges exists. This paper introduces a practical and efficient review framework for extremely large corpora of literature, refined by five parallel implementations within a multi-disciplinary project aiming to map out the research and practice landscape of modelling, simulation, and management methods, spanning a variety of sectors of application where such methods have made a significant impact. Centred on searching and screening techniques along with the use of some emerging IT-assisted analytic and visualisation tools, the proposed framework consists of four key methodological elements to deal with the scale of the reviews, namely: (a) an incremental and iterative review structure, (b) a 3-stage screening phase including filtering, sampling and sifting, (c) use of visualisation tools, and (d) reference chasing (both forward and backward). Five parallel implementations of systematically conducted literature search and screening yielded a total initial search result of 146 087 papers, ultimately narrowed down to a final set of 1383 papers which was manageable within the limited time and other constraints of this research work.  相似文献   

Identifying the trends and impact of graduate attributes on employability: a literature review     

Mohamad Osmani  Vishanth Weerakkody  Nitham M. Hindi  Rajab Al‐Esmail  Tillal Eldabi  Kawaljeet Kapoor 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(4):367-379

Graduate employability has become an issue since there are broad mismatches between the acquired graduate skills from university and the required skills by employers. While previous researches have outlined the salient skills that need to be embedded in graduate education, to date no studies have attempted to methodically identify and synthesize the literature on graduate attributes. In this paper a total of 39 relevant studies on graduate skills and attributes in the subject areas of business and management, accounting, and computer science were extracted from Scopus^® (database). This revealed a total of 53 graduate attributes, with some being highly used, such as communication, teamwork, problem solving, technological skills, creativity, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, self-management and flexibility/adaptability. The majority of studies used a quantitative survey method to collect and rank graduate attributes, and Australia emerged as the most active country in researching the domain.  相似文献   

Identifying the trends and impact of graduate attributes on employability: a literature review     

Osmani  Mohamad  Weerakkody  Vishanth  Hindi  Nitham M.  Al-Esmail  Rajab  Eldabi  Tillal  Kapoor  Kawaljeet  Irani  Zahir 《Tertiary Education and Management》2015,21(4):367-379

Tertiary Education and Management - Graduate employability has become an issue since there are broad mismatches between the acquired graduate skills from university and the required skills by...  相似文献