One of the activities associated with the systematic literature review (SLR) process is the selection of primary studies. When the researcher faces large volumes of primary studies to be analysed, the process used to select studies can be arduous, specially when the selection review activity is performed and all studies under analysis are read more than once. An experiment was conducted as a pilot test to compare the performance and accuracy of graduate students in conducting the selection review activity manually and using visual text mining (VTM) techniques. This paper describes a replication study that used the same experimental design and materials of the original experiment. The results have confirmed the outcomes of the original experiment, i.e., VTM is promising and can improve the performance of the selection review of primary studies. There is a positive relationship between the use of VTM techniques and the time spent to conduct the selection review activity.
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