scholarly journals Scanning the horizon: a systematic literature review of methodologies

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. e026764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hines ◽  
Li Hiu Yu ◽  
Richard H Guy ◽  
Angela Brand ◽  
Marisa Papaluca-Amati
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Horizon Scanning ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
Rapid Emergence ◽  
Biomedical Fields

ObjectivesSociety is confronted with the rapid emergence of innovation in science and technology. To manage this, horizon scanning is being adopted globally to identify, assess and prioritise innovations and trends at an early stage of their development. This enables decision-makers to be better informed and to prepare for change. The aim of this paper is to systematically identify and evaluate horizon scanning methodologies employed in the healthcare and biomedical fields.MethodsA systematic literature review was performed using PubMed and Embase and was supplemented with grey literature searches (2008–2018). The principal methodologies used in horizon scanning were extracted.ResultsApproximately 100 articles were summarised in a literature map. The search revealed many examples of horizon scanning across disciplines. Challenges, such as the need to refine prioritisation criteria, manage uncertainty inherent in the findings and improve the dissemination of identified issues, have been highlighted.ConclusionHorizon scanning, when performed appropriately, is a flexible and potentially reliable tool, with a wide variety of methods. Horizon scanning can inform and influence decision-making, through identifying opportunities and challenges, from an organisational to an international level. Further research to identify the most effective methodologies available would add depth to this landscape and enable the evolution of best practice to most efficiently anticipate novel developments and innovations.

scholarly journals Best practices in ranking communicable disease threats: a literature review, 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Charlotte O’Brien ◽  
Rachel Taft ◽  
Katie Geary ◽  
Massimo Ciotti ◽  
Jonathan E Suk
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Risk Ranking ◽  
Practice Framework

The threat of serious, cross-border communicable disease outbreaks in Europe poses a significant challenge to public health and emergency preparedness because the relative likelihood of these threats and the pathogens involved are constantly shifting in response to a range of changing disease drivers. To inform strategic planning by enabling effective resource allocation to manage the consequences of communicable disease outbreaks, it is useful to be able to rank and prioritise pathogens. This paper reports on a literature review which identifies and evaluates the range of methods used for risk ranking. Searches were performed across biomedical and grey literature databases, supplemented by reference harvesting and citation tracking. Studies were selected using transparent inclusion criteria and underwent quality appraisal using a bespoke checklist based on the AGREE II criteria. Seventeen studies were included in the review, covering five methodologies. A narrative analysis of the selected studies suggests that no single methodology was superior. However, many of the methods shared common components, around which a ‘best-practice’ framework was formulated. This approach is intended to help inform decision makers’ choice of an appropriate risk-ranking study design.

Legally Enforceable Smart-Contract Languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Vimal Dwivedi ◽  
Vishwajeet Pattanaik ◽  
Vipin Deval ◽  
Abhishek Dixit ◽  
Alex Norta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Smart contracts are a key component of today’s blockchains. They are critical in controlling decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO). However, smart contracts are not yet legally binding nor enforceable; this makes it difficult for businesses to adopt the DAO paradigm. Therefore, this study reviews existing Smart Contract Languages (SCL) and identifies properties that are critical to any future SCL for drafting legally binding contracts. This is achieved by conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of white- and grey literature published between 2015 and 2019. Using the SLR methodology, 45 Selected and 28 Supporting Studies detailing 45 state-of-the-art SCLs are selected. Finally, 10 SCL properties that enable legally compliant DAOs are discovered, and specifications for developing SCLs are explored.

Digital transformation of organizations: what do we know and where to go next?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Jedynak ◽  
Wojciech Czakon ◽  
Aneta Kuźniarska ◽  
Karolina Mania
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Domain

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the development of the digital transformation literature and to the systematic literature review methodology.Design/methodology/approachThe authors run a systematic literature review, followed by a rigorous thematic analysis of both academic and grey literature dataset, in order to develop a conceptual map of organizations' digital transformation. The authors aggregate the concepts and topics identified across the literature to find that they overwhelmingly tackle digital business models. At the same time, the authors identify a major blind spot resulting from ignoring the organization itself as a unit of analysis.FindingsThe findings show that developing a digital theory of the organization or the theory of digitally transformed organization is a major challenge to management researchers. The analysis exposed numerous research gaps that can be helpful for future research directions.Originality/valueDigital transformation research enjoys an increasingly rapid rise to recognition across many academic disciplines and strongly impacts the management domain. adopt the view that published documents reflect the collective understanding of a phenomenon. This paper contributes to filtering the digital transformation literature, clarify complex relation between digital transformations of organizations and identify the key blind points.

scholarly journals Best practice for motor imagery: a systematic literature review on motor imagery training elements in five different disciplines

BMC Medicine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Schuster ◽  
Roger Hilfiker ◽  
Oliver Amft ◽  
Anne Scheidhauer ◽  
Brian Andrews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Imagery Training

Anti-money laundering systems: a systematic literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-848
Author(s):  
Alhanouf Abdulrahman Saleh Alsuwailem ◽  
Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Learning Data

Purpose This paper aims to understand and document the state of the art in the anti-money laundering (AML) systems literature. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review (SLR) is performed using the Saudi Digital Library. The outputs published as conference proceedings, workshop proceedings, journal articles and books were all considered. The final sample size after omitting out-of-scope selections was 27 documents, which mainly span from 2015 to 2020. Findings The sample is discussed based on a categorization, which demarcates solutions, machine learning, data sources, evaluation methods, implementation tools, sampling techniques and regions of study. Originality/value This SLR could serve as a useful basis for researchers and salient decision-makers, who are seeking to understand the nature and extent of the currently available research into AML systems.

Qualitative comparative analysis in corporate governance research: a systematic literature review of applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Cucari
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Complex Phenomena

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide comprehensive mapping of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) applications in business and management research and to examine the sub-fields of corporate governance research in this context. Design/methodology/approach Through a systematic literature review of 22 articles, the paper describes and analyses how QCA is used in the corporate governance field, what can be learned from the methodology’s implementation in corporate governance studies and why authors justify its use. Findings The findings highlight that QCA in corporate governance is still at an early stage of development. The paper encourages governance scholars to use this method to transform QCA from a niche into a mainstream method because it is appropriate for understanding both complex phenomena of social reality and issues of corporate governance that require an approach able to capture configurations of conditions, asymmetric patterns and equifinal explanations. Originality/value This is the first complete overview of the existing literature concerning QCA’s application in corporate governance research and reveals implications for its future use. In this way, it extends the previous work on QCA’s benefits to management researchers and other critical reviews of applications in QCA. This study encourages scholars to renew their understanding of corporate governance issues through a new analysis method that can help to discover conceptual and empirical relations among case-oriented and variable-oriented analyses in terms of interrelations to examine corporate governance practices holistically.

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS VALIDATION FOR MOBILE APPS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorrezam Yusop ◽  
Massila Kamalrudin ◽  
Safiah Sidek
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security Testing ◽  
Testing Technique ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Main Challenge

Security requirements are important to increase the confidence of mobile users to perform many online transactions, such as banking, booking and payment via mobile devices.  Objective: This study aims to identify the attributes of security requirements for mobile applications (mobile apps) and the existing tools, techniques and approaches used in security requirements. The gaps and limitations for each approach are also discussed. Method: We conducted a systematic literature review to identify and analyse related literatures on validation of security requirements for mobile apps. We identified 68 studies that provide relevant information on security requirements for mobile apps. Result:  There were two main findings: (1) the attributes of security requirements that are relevant for mobile apps are authentication, confidentiality, authorization, access control   and integrity; (2) Mobile security testing methods for validating security requirements of mobile apps were also identified. Finally, the gaps and limitation of each approach requirements in relation to mobile apps were also discussed. Conclusions: The main challenge of security requirements is to identify the most appropriate security attributes and security testing technique to validate security requirements for mobile apps. As such, requirements engineers should consider the challenges posed by security requirements such as testing when validating and developing security requirements for mobile apps testing technique. Further, correct security requirements for security attributes of security requirements need to be considered at the early stage of development of the mobile apps development.  

Hospital Ships Adrift? Part 1: A Systematic Literature Review Characterizing US Navy Hospital Ship Humanitarian and Disaster Response, 2004-2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Licina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Hospital Ships ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackgroundUnited States foreign policy is tied extensively to health initiatives, many related to the use of military assets. Despite substantial resource investment by the US Department of Defense (DoD) in hospital ship humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions, the impact of this investment is unclear.MethodsA systematic literature review of both peer-reviewed and grey literature using eight databases representing the international community and multiple sectors was conducted. Data on the characteristics of missions directly related to US Navy hospital ship humanitarian assistance and disaster response from 2004-2012 were extracted and documented.ResultsOf the 1445 sources reviewed, a total of 43 publications met criteria for review. Six (13.9%) met empirical documentation criteria and 37 (86.0%) were considered nonempirical expert opinions and anecdotal accounts that were primarily descriptive in nature. Overall, disaster response accounted for 67.4% (29/43) and humanitarian assistance 25.6% (11/43). Public and private sector participants produced 79.0% (34/43) and 20.9% (9/43) of the publications respectively. Of private sector publications, 88.9% (8/9) focused on disaster response compared to 61.8% (21/34) from the public sector. Of all publications meeting inclusion criteria, 81.4% (35/43) focused on medical care, 9.3% (4/43) discussed partnerships, 4.7% (2/43) training, and 4.7% (2/43) medical ethics and strategic utilization. No primary author publications from the diplomatic, development, or participating host nations were identified. One (2.3%) of the 43 publications was from a partner nation participant.DiscussionWithout rigorous research methods yielding valid and reliable data-based information pertaining to Navy hospital ship mission impact, policy makers are left with anecdotal reports to influence their decision-making processes. This is inadequate considering the frequency of hospital ship deployments used as a foreign policy tool and the considerable funding that is involved in each mission. Future research efforts should study empirically the short- and long-term impacts of hospital ship missions in building regional and civil-military partnerships while meeting the humanitarian and disaster response needs of host nation populations.LicinaD. Hospital ships adrift? Part 1: a systematic literature review characterizing US Navy hospital ship humanitarian and disaster response, 2004-2012. Prehosp Disaster Med.2013;28(3):1–10..

scholarly journals Prognostic awareness in advanced cancer: an integrative literature review

2020 ◽  
pp. bmjspcare-2020-002287
Author(s):  
Sara Mone ◽  
Helen Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
English Language ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Prognostic Information ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
The Individual

Individuals with advanced cancer who have accurate prognostic awareness are reported to make more informed decisions about their plan of care. Despite this, it is reported that individuals do not always have accurate prognostic awareness with the rationale for this discordance unclear. The primary aim of the integrative literature review was to identify if there is concordance between actual prognosis and accurate prognostic awareness in individuals with advanced cancer. The secondary aim was to identify the rationale for any discordance between actual prognosis and prognostic awareness in individuals with advanced cancer. This is an integrative literature review using a systematic approach. Literature searches were undertaken in March 2018 in four databases; CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Cochrane Library. Searches were limited to between 2008 and 2018 and those written in the English language. Database searches were supplemented with papers from reference lists of included papers and grey literature. Two reviewers independently completed the literature search and independently reviewed the papers. Fourteen eligible research papers were identified. The majority of individuals with advanced cancer in the included studies did not have accurate prognostic awareness. When identified, the rationale for discordance relates to the individual not being communicated accurate prognostic information, not being able to recall prognostic conversations or prognosis being discussed in vague terms. As individuals with advanced cancer with accurate prognostic awareness make more informed decisions at a crucial time in their life trajectory, it is imperative that healthcare professionals are equipped to effectively deliver accurate prognostic information, ensuring understanding is assessed.

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