Expansion Diagram

[ratuspro]

One of the motivators that lead to the development of Sciencer was the necessity to formalize the expansion flowchart of a systematic review. Besides the source code used to define an expansion, a visual representation should also be made available.

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) has been widely used to report systematic reviews and meta analyses across several research fields. PRISMA flowchart describes not only the criteria for the systematic review but also the results.

Consider adding a method to generate a flowchart reporting the expansion to Sciencer Toolkit.

[RicardoEPRodrigues]

After reading a bit about it, I like this idea. It also gives us what information is needed in a systematic review and how to showcase it.

In the documentation, they discuss the use of a platform for shared systematic reviews called Covidence, perhaps I'll create a new issue for this, but I think we should have an exporter to a known and widely used format. RIS, Endnote XML, or Bibtex. That would allow importing to such a platform.

The combination of a templated expansion diagram and the citation in a known format would make Sciencer even more captivating.