colrev.descriptive_review

Version: 0.1.0

Maintainer: Gerit Wagner

License: MIT

Repository: CoLRev-Environment/colrev

Endpoint	Status	Add
review_type		colrev init --type colrev.descriptive_review

Summary

Descriptive reviews aim to reveal patterns or trends in prior research without aggregating empirical evidence, or contributing to theory development. These reviews collect, codify, and analyze papers to derive insights related to the frequency of topics, authors, methods, or publication types, for instance. Results are typically tabulated or illustrated in the form of charts.

Characteristics

Dimension	Description
Goal with regard to theory	Describing
Scope of questions	Broad
Nature of sources	Often restricted to empirical papers

Data extraction, analysis, and synthesis

The following packages are automatically set up in a descriptive review:

• colrev.prisma

• colrev.profile

• colrev.structured

• colrev.paper_md

Examples

Dahlberg, T., Mallat, N., Ondrus, J., & Zmijewska, A. (2008). Past, present and future of mobile payments research: A literature review. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 7(2), 165-181. doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2007.02.001

Sidorova, A., Evangelopoulos, N., Valacich, J. S., & Ramakrishnan, T. (2008). Uncovering the intellectual core of the information systems discipline. MIS Quarterly 32(3), 467-482. doi:10.2307/25148852