Systematic literature review: References extraction helper and automatic analysis

Abstract

This article describes a software suite designed for systematic and automatic literature reviews. Actually, we used these tools to help us build our systematic literature review on our research topic: biometric authentication using PPG (photoplethysmography). However, our tools can be easily applied (and have been applied) to other fields, whether scientific (state of the art) or technological (technology watch). Our software suite is made of two softwares. The first one helps to extract, merge and filter all the references in the pdf file versions of the papers. The second one helps to make statistical analysis on the dataset created for the SLR.