searchAnalyzeR - Advanced Analytics and Testing Framework for Systematic Review
Search Strategies
Provides comprehensive analytics, reporting, and testing
capabilities for systematic review search strategies. The
package focuses on validating search performance, generating
standardized 'PRISMA'-compliant reports, and ensuring
reproducibility in evidence synthesis. Features include
precision-recall analysis, cross-database performance
comparison, benchmark validation against gold standards,
sensitivity analysis, temporal coverage assessment, automated
report generation, and statistical comparison of search
strategies. Supports multiple export formats including 'CSV',
'Excel', 'RIS', 'BibTeX', and 'EndNote'. Includes tools for
duplicate detection, search strategy optimization,
cross-validation frameworks, meta-analysis of benchmark
results, power analysis for study design, and reproducibility
package creation. Optionally connects to 'PubMed' for direct
database searching and real-time strategy comparison using the
'E-utilities' 'API'. Enhanced with bootstrap comparison
methods, 'McNemar' test for strategy evaluation, and
comprehensive visualization tools for performance assessment.
Methods based on Manning et al. (2008) for information
retrieval metrics, Moher et al. (2009) for 'PRISMA' guidelines,
and Sampson et al. (2006) for systematic review search
methodology.
