Systematic literature studies: Database searches vs. backward snowballing

By Samireh Jalali, Claes Wohlin. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2012

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Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies (2022, methodology): “The authors compared the outcome of DB searches, snowballing, and hybrid strategies and concluded that using a hybrid search strategy involving a representative digital library (e.g. Scopus) and parallel or sequential snowballing may be an appropriate alternative for searching for candidate articles”
Agile Requirements Engineering: A systematic literature review (2017, methodology): “We applied forward snowballing (search in papers that cited the paper) and backward snowballing (search in the reference list of the paper) [34].”
Travel-based multitasking: review of the empirical evidence (2018, background): “Additional sources were identified through snowballing, that is, searching for relevant references in the reference lists of already identified papers, or searching for papers that reference an already identified paper (Jalali & Wohlin, 2012).”
Functional properties of lactic acid bacteria in fermented fruit and vegetable juices: a systematic literature review (2020, methodology): “Research methods A systematic literature review based on the SALSA method (search, appraisal, synthesis, analysis) [12] and backwards-snowballing procedure [13] allowed for gathering research articles about the functional properties of lactic acid bacteria used in fermented fruit and vegetable juice”
Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering (2014, background): “Other complementary searches were not done either since the objective is to compare snowballing with a database-firstapproach in a similar way as in [19], although with a better specified procedure for using snowballing.”
Guidelines for conducting systematic mapping studies in software engineering: An update (2015, methodology): “To reduce this threat, we complemented the search with backward snowball sampling [19] of all studies after full-text reading (see Fig.”
On being ‘systematic’ in literature reviews in IS (2015, background): “Given the procedural nature of the review process the role and influence of the researcher in the resulting literature review is minimized (see e.g., Staples and Niazi, 2007; Jalali and Wohlin, 2012) It is assumed that a researcher develops better understanding of a phenomenon by extensive and in-de”