---
title: Barbara Kitchenham
type: entity
tags: [researcher, software-engineering, evidence-based, literature-review, canonical]
affiliation: Keele University, UK (Software Engineering Group)
sources: ["[[sources/2007-kitchenham-slr-guidelines]]"]
created: 2026-04-20
updated: 2026-04-20
---

# Barbara Kitchenham

Professor Emeritus at **Keele University** and a founder of the Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE) programme. Lead author of the canonical 2007 guidelines that brought systematic-literature-review methodology from medicine into software engineering.

## Contributions in this wiki
- [[sources/2007-kitchenham-slr-guidelines]] — *Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering* (EBSE-2007-01, v2.3). The procedural backbone for [[methods/systematic-literature-review]].

## Role
Hub author for literature-review methodology across the wiki. Any SLR-style source (e.g. [[sources/2019-verenich-survey-ppm]], [[sources/2020-rama-maneiro-deep-learning-ppm-review]]) is implicitly downstream of these guidelines.