The development and empirical study of a literature review aiding system

Tsung Teng Chen ()
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Tsung Teng Chen: National Taipei University

Scientometrics, 2012, vol. 92, issue 1, No 8, 105-116

Abstract: Abstract Literature review is an important but time-consuming task that involves many disparate steps. A simple query to a library database may return voluminous literature that often bewilders novices.We believe the bibliographic techniques developed by the information scientists provide useful process and methods that facilitate literature analysis and review. We thereby developed a citation-based literature analyzing and structuring system, which may facilitate novices to perform tasks that are usually carried out by trained professionals. A field study was carried out to gauge the utility as well as users’ perception using a questionnaire adopted from relevant empirical studies. Graduate students participated in the field study are able to publish papers in their first semester by utilizing this system. The utility and usefulness of the intellectual structuring system are demonstrated by the objective evidence of the high acceptance rate of papers utilizing the system as well as the subjective positive response from the users. A system utilization model utilizing the structure equation modeling technique found the task characteristics construct affects the information quality construct, which in turn affects the perceive usefulness of the system.

Keywords: Literature review; Intellectual structure; Citation analysis; Empirical study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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