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searchAnalyzeR provides comprehensive analytics, reporting, and testing capabilities for systematic review search strategies. The package helps researchers optimize their search strategies, evaluate performance against gold standards, and generate PRISMA-compliant reports.

Key Features

  • πŸ” PubMed database API search integration
  • πŸ“Š Performance metrics calculation (precision, recall, F1-score, efficiency measures)
  • 🎯 Search strategy optimization with term effectiveness analysis
  • πŸ“ˆ Rich visualizations for search performance and temporal coverage
  • πŸ“‹ PRISMA-compliant reporting with flow diagrams
  • πŸ“„ Reproducibility tools for transparent research
  • βœ… Benchmark validation across multiple domains
  • 🧹 Duplicate detection with multiple algorithms
  • πŸ“€ Multi-format exports (CSV, Excel, RIS, BibTeX, EndNote)

Installation

You can install the development version of searchAnalyzeR from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("chaoliu-cl/searchAnalyzeR")

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3 License.

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searchAnalyzeR is designed to make systematic review search strategy analysis more rigorous, transparent, and reproducible. Whether you’re conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis, or methodological research on search strategies, this package provides the tools you need for comprehensive analysis.