Building a Search Strategy with Keyword Blocks | HubMeta Tutorial #4 — Transcript

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1. 0:14Welcome back. Now that we have created
2. 0:17our project, the first thing we want to
3. 0:18do is to find the articles that could
4. 0:22potentially be included in our
5. 0:24systematic review or meta-analysis
6. 0:27using keyword search. That's the most
7. 0:30common way to start with at least.
8. 0:33Usually the best way to do this is to go
9. 0:36through previously published systematic
10. 0:38reviews
11. 0:40in your field on a similar topic or on
12. 0:43the exact topic that you're doing now
13. 0:45and look at their search strategies. See
14. 0:47what keywords they have used in
15. 0:50including their articles. As an example,
16. 0:53I'll use my actual project on the
17. 0:57meta-analysis on the effect of
18. 0:58multinationality
19. 1:00on performance of firms, which is a
20. 1:03meta-analysis
21. 1:04that was done by Karakaya et al. back in
22. 1:082011,
23. 1:10published in the prestigious Academy of
24. 1:12Management Journal. And my goal is to
25. 1:16update this study. And if I look at this
26. 1:20paper, usually in the methodology
27. 1:23section, they will clearly explain their
28. 1:27inclusion-exclusion criteria, the
29. 1:30keywords they have used to search, and
30. 1:33all of those good. So, you see here it
31. 1:36just says the databases were used. These
32. 1:39are our keywords, and this is how we
33. 1:42used it, then what else they have done.
34. 1:45So, we will try to create something very
35. 1:48much like that. But of course,
36. 1:52it might be a combination of this and
37. 1:54other systematic reviews or for whatever
38. 1:57reason you might believe that
39. 1:59theoretically you might have to add more
40. 2:02keywords or less to conduct your own
41. 2:05study. Whatever the case may be, the
42. 2:08first thing you want to do is go to our
43. 2:11pool tab and start search. What you do
44. 2:15here is you can just describe the topic
45. 2:19that you're working on to an AI and this
46. 2:22will create search keywords for you. So,
47. 2:25in this case, I will use explanation, a
48. 2:29meta-analysis
49. 2:31on the effect of multinationality
50. 2:35on performance
51. 2:38for firms. If I want more, I can
52. 2:41actually copy some of the text from
53. 2:46this core article that I'm trying to
54. 2:49repeat the process of and it doesn't
55. 2:52matter the format. Think of this AI
56. 2:54chatbot because what it actually is is
57. 2:56in the back and send it to an AI. So, it
58. 2:58doesn't matter what format or whatever,
59. 3:00AI will figure it out. And here I'm
60. 3:03commanding it to create either two or
61. 3:06three blocks of search keywords. Let's
62. 3:09see the results, then I will explain the
63. 3:11block method. So, let's generate the
64. 3:14keywords that we need.
65. 3:17It sends this description to AI. It says
66. 3:20we need you to create two blocks for us
67. 3:23and as you can see, it is creating two
68. 3:26blocks of keywords. The block number one
69. 3:29is
70. 3:30terms that can capture multinationality
71. 3:33or internationalization for me. So,
72. 3:36keywords such as multinationality,
73. 3:38internationalization,
74. 3:39or you can see all of these are related
75. 3:42to that meaning, to the meaning of
76. 3:44internationalization. The second one is
77. 3:46on firm performance. So, basically the
78. 3:49block method is the core meanings
79. 3:54that have to be present in the studies,
80. 3:58in locating the studies you want. Each
81. 4:01core has similarity in meanings, like in
82. 4:04my first core, my first block is all
83. 4:07around multinationality,
84. 4:08and the second one is around firm
85. 4:11performance. You can think of it that
86. 4:14there is an or in between all of these
87. 4:17keywords in each block, and then there
88. 4:19is an and in between the multiple
89. 4:22blocks. So, you want either of these
90. 4:25keywords for block one, either of these
91. 4:27keywords in block two, and then both of
92. 4:30them present. When you click on continue
93. 4:34to database selection, what this will do
94. 4:36is it will create search strings for all
95. 4:40these different platforms. So, you might
96. 4:43even have more than this, but these are
97. 4:45a good starting point for you. Let's
98. 4:47generate the search string search these
99. 4:51platforms. Web of Science, Scopus, and
100. 4:55ABI Inform. I already have them open
101. 4:58here. Let's do the search. So, I'll just
102. 5:00copy this search prompt, go into my Web
103. 5:05of Science, and put them in and do the
104. 5:08search. It came up with 3,813
105. 5:13results. Similar on Scopus, I will just
106. 5:17copy my keywords that I have made a
107. 5:20suggested my Scopus. I will put it here
108. 5:24and do the search. This time, 3,374.
109. 5:29So, my next step would obviously be to
110. 5:32download the articles from this. We need
111. 5:35a way to download this, and I'm not
112. 5:37going to lie, these search platforms do
113. 5:40not make it easy for us. Scopus is
114. 5:42actually the best one here because all
115. 5:44you got to do is to go on and click on
116. 5:47export and you export it as RIS. You can
117. 5:51import CSV, RIS, or BibTeX into
118. 5:54Covidence, but the best one is honestly
119. 5:57RIS every time. All you got to do is to
120. 6:00just say which documents you want. You
121. 6:03go from document 1 to 3,374
122. 6:07here. Make sure you click on abstract,
123. 6:11whatever the platform it is. Make sure
124. 6:14you include the abstract in the download
125. 6:17that you are doing and then you export
126. 6:19and it will download a file. In Web of
127. 6:21Science, it's not as straightforward
128. 6:24because you can click on export, but
129. 6:27every time you can select 1,000 records.
130. 6:31So, I will make sure that abstract is
131. 6:33also selected here. 1,000 records, I
132. 6:36will export. The RIS file comes down and
133. 6:39then we have our RIS files ready to be
134. 6:44put back into Covidence. That's keyword
135. 6:47search inside the new Covidence.