“…A meta -analysis requires a vast body of literature in the field of study. In an MA (e.g., Goel et al, 2019 , Kumar and Ganesh, 2009 , Samaddar and Menon, 2020 , Sudhindra et al, 2014 , Sunder et al, 2018 , Sunder and Mahalingam, 2018 ), the existing body of literature is organized into conceptual dimensions, sub-dimensions, and variants (called Morphological Framework), which together represent the conceptual space of the topic at hand. The VIM presents the intersections (cross-matches) among the dimensions in an MA to help identify the full set of potential gaps, from which the relevant gaps are qualified using logical rules.…”