Reference Data for "Towards maritime transport decarbonisation in developing countries: A systematic literature review"
Description
This dataset supports the systematic literature review (SLR) entitled "Towards maritime transport decarbonisation in developing countries: A systematic literature review" It includes two files: SLR Reference - Selected Studies.xml — an EndNote-compatible XML file containing the 55 studies that were selected for full review and synthesis. These references represent peer-reviewed publications relevant to maritime decarbonisation in the context of developing countries, retrieved and curated according to the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. Retrieved Literature from Protocol-Driven Search - No Duplicates.csv — a CSV file listing all 787 records, excluding duplicates, initially retrieved through the protocol-driven database search. The search was conducted across four scholarly databases: Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, and Compendex, using structured keyword combinations and Boolean operators. The file includes bibliographic metadata such as titles, authors, sources, abstracts (where available), and source database identifiers. These files allow full transparency and reproducibility of the literature selection process and co-occurence mapping using the VosViewer application. No proprietary or full-text content is included—only bibliographic metadata.
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Steps to reproduce
Reproducibility Steps for "Retrieved Literature from Protocol-Driven Search - No Duplicates.csv" Define Search Protocol with 4 keyword queries: • Query #1 targeted literature related to the maritime transport sector, using terms such as “maritime transport”, port, and ship*. • Query #2 focused on decarbonisation efforts, incorporating terms such as decarbon*, “net zero”, “zero carbon”, “low carbon”, and emissions. • Query #3 narrowed the context to developing countries or emerging economies by combining "developing" or "emerging" with countr*, nation*, or econom*. • Query #4 combined all previous queries (Query #1 AND Query #2 AND Query #3) to ensure that the resulting literature addressed the review’s scope simultaneously. Apply filters: Peer-reviewed and English-language Search conducted in the following databases: Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Compendex (Engineering Village) Export and Merge References: Export all initial search results (removing all duplicates) into a CSV format. Make sure to include fields such as Title, Author(s), Abstract, Year, Journal, DOI, Source Database, and Keywords. Reproducibility Steps for "SLR Reference - Selected Studies" It continuation from the previous steps, but including snowballing techniques, as well as the assessment of relevance and quality using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) framework. Detailed of the process can be seen in the published paper alongside of this dataset
Institutions
- Newcastle University