Ciemer Celina, Klotzbier Thomas Jürgen, Ghellal Sabiha, Schott Nadja
Institute for Sport and Movement Science, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Institute for Games, Stuttgart Media University, Stuttgart, Germany.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jun 13;13:1489161. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1489161. eCollection 2025.
Cross-disciplinary research approaches have become more necessary in light of the increasing global and societal challenges. As different forms of collaboration emerge, cross-disciplinary systematic reviews that integrate these approaches are increasingly recognized as crucial. A key part of these reviews is conducting a valid and thorough literature search. To comprehend the state of knowledge, integrating diverse findings and ensuring that the literature search captures relevant studies from all viewpoints, including their combinations and collaborations, is important.
This article presents a framework for conducting cross-disciplinary literature searches that adhere to established best-practice guidelines and reporting standards. The framework seeks to include research across all forms of collaboration across disciplines, including multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary. The objective is to enhance the sensitivity and robustness of literature searches in cross-disciplinary research contexts.
We developed a framework that integrates a pre-process into the search to support cross-disciplinary literature searches. Additionally, we derived a procedure from specific concepts, including the use of shared thesaurus, focus, and iterative approach, which are applied throughout the various stages of the process. To demonstrate the value of the cross-disciplinary literature search (CRIS) framework, we performed an example search that combines User Experience and Game Design with Human Movement Science. We conducted three literature searches and compared our framework with discipline-specific and an expert overlap perspectives.
By applying our CRIS framework, we observed significant improvements in sensitivity and robustness compared to the other searches, illustrating the framework's effectiveness in cross-disciplinary research settings.
Through our example, which combines User Experience and Game Design with Human Movement Science, we show that our framework substantially enhances the quality of literature searches, underscoring its potential for advancing cross-disciplinary research.
鉴于全球和社会挑战日益增多，跨学科研究方法变得愈发必要。随着不同形式的合作不断涌现，整合这些方法的跨学科系统评价日益被视为至关重要。这些评价的一个关键部分是进行有效且全面的文献检索。为了理解知识状态，整合多样的研究结果并确保文献检索涵盖所有观点的相关研究，包括它们的组合与合作，这一点很重要。
本文提出了一个进行跨学科文献检索的框架，该框架遵循既定的最佳实践指南和报告标准。该框架旨在纳入跨学科所有形式合作的研究，包括多学科、跨学科和超学科。目的是提高跨学科研究背景下文献检索的敏感性和稳健性。
我们开发了一个将预处理整合到检索中的框架，以支持跨学科文献检索。此外，我们从特定概念中推导了一个程序，包括使用共享词库、重点和迭代方法，这些方法在过程的各个阶段都有应用。为了证明跨学科文献检索（CRIS）框架的价值，我们进行了一个将用户体验和游戏设计与人体运动科学相结合的示例检索。我们进行了三次文献检索，并将我们的框架与特定学科和专家重叠视角进行了比较。
通过应用我们的CRIS框架，我们观察到与其他检索相比，在敏感性和稳健性方面有显著提高，这说明了该框架在跨学科研究环境中的有效性。
通过我们将用户体验和游戏设计与人体运动科学相结合的示例，我们表明我们的框架极大地提高了文献检索的质量，凸显了其在推进跨学科研究方面的潜力。
