Context

Systematic Literature Review (SLR) studies aim to identify relevant primary papers, extract the required data, analyze, and synthesize results to gain further and broader insight into the investigated domain. Multiple SLR studies have been conducted in several domains, such as software engineering, medicine, and pharmacy. Conducting an SLR is a time-consuming, laborious, and costly effort. As such, several researchers developed different techniques to automate the SLR process. However, a systematic overview of the current state-of-the-art in SLR automation seems to be lacking.

Objective

This study aims to collect and synthesize the studies that focus on the automation of SLR to pave the way for further research.

Method

A systematic literature review is conducted on published primary studies on the automation of SLR studies, in which 41 primary studies have been analyzed.

Results

This SLR identifies the objectives of automation studies, application domains, automated steps of the SLR, automation techniques, and challenges and solution directions.

Conclusion

According to our study, the leading automated step is the Selection of Primary Studies. Although many studies have provided automation approaches for systematic literature reviews, no study has been found to apply automation techniques in the planning and reporting phase. Further research is needed to support the automation of the other activities of the SLR process.

中文翻译：

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系统的文献综述的自动化：系统的文献综述

语境

系统文献综述（SLR）研究旨在确定相关的主要论文，提取所需的数据，进行分析和综合结果，以获取对所研究领域的进一步深入了解。在软件工程，医学和药学等多个领域进行了多项SLR研究。进行SLR是一项耗时，费力且昂贵的工作。因此，几位研究人员开发了不同的技术来使SLR过程自动化。但是，似乎缺少对SLR自动化的最新技术的系统概述。

客观的

这项研究旨在收集和综合侧重于SLR自动化的研究，从而为进一步的研究铺平道路。

方法

对已发表的有关SLR研究自动化的主要研究进行了系统的文献综述，其中对41项主要研究进行了分析。

结果

该SLR确定了自动化研究的目标，应用领域，SLR的自动化步骤，自动化技术以及挑战和解决方案的方向。

结论

根据我们的研究，自动化的首要步骤是基础研究的选择。尽管许多研究为系统的文献综述提供了自动化方法，但尚未发现在规划和报告阶段应用自动化技术的研究。需要进一步的研究来支持SLR过程其他活动的自动化。