Scoping search
A scoping search is a search technique you can use as a first step in your literature review: its main objective is to rapidly and efficiently determine the scale of a predefined topic.
Creating an overview of keywords used
When you do a scoping search it can be hard to extract the keywords attached to records in the search result. To get an overview of those keywords, you can use a visualization tool like VOSviewer. There are more tools like this one, but for this module we focus on VOSviewer.
Example of an author keyword map.
Activity: Creating a keyword map with VOSviewer.
Related.
Handout VOSviewer Keywords Map (PDF)
