searchAnalyzeR

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

• 🔍 PubMed database API search integration
• 📊 Performance metrics calculation (precision, recall, F1-score, efficiency measures)
• 🎯 Search strategy optimization with term effectiveness analysis
• 📈 Rich visualizations for search performance and temporal coverage
• 📋 PRISMA-compliant reporting with flow diagrams
• 📄 Reproducibility tools for transparent research
• ✅ Benchmark validation across multiple domains
• 🧹 Duplicate detection with multiple algorithms
• 📤 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.

Support

• 📧 Email: chaoliu@cedarville.edu
• 🐛 Issues: GitHub Issues

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.