8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
In our recent paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, we highlight 8 common problems with traditional literature review methods, provide examples for each from the field of environmental management and ecology, and provide practical solutions for ways to mitigate them. Problem. Solution. Lack of relevance - limited stakeholder engagement can ...
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
Environment. Policy*. Research Design. Systematic Reviews as Topic*. Traditional approaches to reviewing literature may be susceptible to bias and result in incorrect decisions. This is of particular concern when reviews address policy- and practice-relevant questions. Systematic reviews have been introduced as a more rigorous approach to ...
Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review
Introduction. Literature review is an essential feature of academic research. Fundamentally, knowledge advancement must be built on prior existing work. To push the knowledge frontier, we must know where the frontier is. By reviewing relevant literature, we understand the breadth and depth of the existing body of work and identify gaps to explore.
Literature review as a research methodology: An ...
As mentioned previously, there are a number of existing guidelines for literature reviews. Depending on the methodology needed to achieve the purpose of the review, all types can be helpful and appropriate to reach a specific goal (for examples, please see Table 1).These approaches can be qualitative, quantitative, or have a mixed design depending on the phase of the review.
Writing the Literature Review: Common Mistakes and Best Practices
The literature review is an essential component of academic research writing, providing a comprehensive overview of existing research and informing the development of new studies. ... The American social revolution that began in the late 1960s and extended into the 1970s drew attention to the unequal power relationships that exist across our ...
Writing a literature review
A formal literature review is an evidence-based, in-depth analysis of a subject. There are many reasons for writing one and these will influence the length and style of your review, but in essence a literature review is a critical appraisal of the current collective knowledge on a subject. Rather than just being an exhaustive list of all that ...
PDF LITERATURE REVIEWS
1. EXPLAIN KEY TERMS & CONCEPTS ¡ examine your research questions: do they contain any terms that need to be explained?(e.g. identity, discourse, culture, ideology, gender, narrative, collective memory) ¡ be aware that key definitions and background should be provided in the introduction to orient your reader to the topic. the literature review is the place to provide more extended ...
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
The aims of literature reviews range from providing a primer for the uninitiated to summarizing the evidence for decision making 1. Traditional approaches to literature reviews are susceptible to ...
The Literature Review: A Foundation for High-Quality Medical Education
Purpose and Importance of the Literature Review. An understanding of the current literature is critical for all phases of a research study. Lingard 9 recently invoked the "journal-as-conversation" metaphor as a way of understanding how one's research fits into the larger medical education conversation. As she described it: "Imagine yourself joining a conversation at a social event.
Approaching literature review for academic purposes: The Literature
INTRODUCTION. Writing the literature review (LR) is often viewed as a difficult task that can be a point of writer's block and procrastination in postgraduate life.Disagreements on the definitions or classifications of LRs may confuse students about their purpose and scope, as well as how to perform an LR.Interestingly, at many universities, the LR is still an important element in any ...
Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review
Literature reviews are in great demand in most scientific fields. Their need stems from the ever-increasing output of scientific publications .For example, compared to 1991, in 2008 three, eight, and forty times more papers were indexed in Web of Science on malaria, obesity, and biodiversity, respectively .Given such mountains of papers, scientists cannot be expected to examine in detail every ...
An analysis of current practices in undertaking literature reviews in
Background: In this paper we discuss the emergence of many different methods for doing a literature review. Referring back to the early days, when there were essentially two types of review; a Cochrane systematic review and a narrative review, we identify how the term systematic review is now widely used to describe a variety of review types and how the number of available methods for doing a ...
What is a literature review?
A literature or narrative review is a comprehensive review and analysis of the published literature on a specific topic or research question. The literature that is reviewed contains: books, articles, academic articles, conference proceedings, association papers, and dissertations. It contains the most pertinent studies and points to important ...
PDF DOING A LITERATURE 3 REVIEW
These three lenses are suggested as being., breakdown, time, and narrative. EXAMPLE 3.3. Literature review by Patriotta. In a study of knowing and learning in organisations, a doetoral student adopted a cultural-historical and situated perspective on knowing based on activity theory.
How to Write a Literature Review
Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.
Systematic reviews: Brief overview of methods, limitations, and
CONCLUSION. Siddaway 16 noted that, "The best reviews synthesize studies to draw broad theoretical conclusions about what the literature means, linking theory to evidence and evidence to theory" (p. 747). To that end, high quality systematic reviews are explicit, rigorous, and reproducible. It is these three criteria that should guide authors seeking to write a systematic review or editors ...
The benefits and challenges of using systematic reviews in
A forthcoming systematic review on microcredit impact and women's empowerment by Vaessen et al. (forthcoming) has managed to conduct a meta-analysis including studies that are conceptually and methodologically diverse. The challenges and limitations of doing this are discussed in Duvendack et al. (Citation 2012).
(PDF) Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and
This. paper discusses literature review as a methodology for conducting research and o ffers an overview of different. types of reviews, as well as some guidelines to how to both conduct and ...
Critically reviewing literature: A tutorial for new researchers
Instead, a literature review for an empirical article or for a thesis is usually organized by concept. However, a literature review on a topic that one is trying to publish in its own right could be organized by the issues uncovered in that review e.g. definitional issues, measurement issues and so on. 3.3. Assessing the literature that was ...
5. The Literature Review
A literature review may consist of simply a summary of key sources, but in the social sciences, a literature review usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis, often within specific conceptual categories.A summary is a recap of the important information of the source, but a synthesis is a re-organization, or a reshuffling, of that information in a way that ...
Chapter 9 Methods for Literature Reviews
9.3. Types of Review Articles and Brief Illustrations. EHealth researchers have at their disposal a number of approaches and methods for making sense out of existing literature, all with the purpose of casting current research findings into historical contexts or explaining contradictions that might exist among a set of primary research studies conducted on a particular topic.
Advantages and disadvantages of literature review
According to the University of Illinois (2022), literature reviews allow researchers to gain familiarity with the existing knowledge in their selected field, as well as the boundaries and limitations of that field. Creation of new body of knowledge. One of the key advantages of literature review is that it creates new body of knowledge.
Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews of Management
The present methodological literature review (cf. Aguinis et al., 2020) addresses this void and aims to identify the dominant approaches to sample selection and provide insights into essential choices in this step of systematic reviews, with a particular focus on management research.To follow these objectives, I have critically reviewed systematic reviews published in the two most prominent ...
Full article: Children's Perceptions and Experiences of Their
This review of qualitative research followed the guidelines for systematic literature reviews proposed by Bettany-Saltikov and McSherry (Citation 2016) and was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses -PRISMA (Page et al., Citation 2021). This systematic review synthesises subjective ...
Sustainability
Over the last two decades, numerous studies have highlighted the significance of integrating sustainability into higher education. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the literature on engineering education for sustainable development, emphasizing the inclusion of this concept within engineering curricula and recognizing the pivotal role that engineers play in achieving the ...
Remote Sensing
A key feature for urban digital twins (DTs) is an automatically generated detailed 3D representation of the built and unbuilt environment from aerial imagery, footprints, LiDAR, or a fusion of these. Such 3D models have applications in architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, construction, real estate, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and many other areas. While the ...
Viologen-based aqueous organic redox flow battery: material synthesis
Then, how the molecular engineering affects the viologen properties is discussed to address the limitations of current viologen-based AORFBs. Through presenting some representative examples, we further elaborate the impacts of the properties of designed viologens on the battery performance when paired with organic or inorganic posolyte.
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Background: Post-operative pain management is essential for optimizing recovery, patient comfort, and satisfaction. Peripheral nerve blockade, or lumbar plexus block (LPB), has been widely used for analgesia and regional anesthesia. This study explored the existing literature to determine the efficacy of continuous lumbar plexus blockade in managing post-operative pain following hip or femur ...
Platelet-rich plasma therapy in erectile dysfunction and ...
Purpose Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) as a regenerative therapy has gained interest in the field of andrology for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) and Peyronie's disease (PD). This systematic review aims to critically evaluate the current evidence on the use of PRP for these conditions. Methods We performed a systematic literature search according to the PRISMA guidelines using PubMed ...
Discrete-continuous models of residential energy demand: A
This paper reviews forty years of research applying econometric models of discrete-continuous choice to analyze residential demand for energy. The review is primarily from the perspective of economic theory. We examine how well the utility-theoretic models developed in the literature match data that is commonly available on residential energy use, and we highlight the modeling challenges that ...
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In our recent paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, we highlight 8 common problems with traditional literature review methods, provide examples for each from the field of environmental management and ecology, and provide practical solutions for ways to mitigate them. Problem. Solution. Lack of relevance - limited stakeholder engagement can ...
Environment. Policy*. Research Design. Systematic Reviews as Topic*. Traditional approaches to reviewing literature may be susceptible to bias and result in incorrect decisions. This is of particular concern when reviews address policy- and practice-relevant questions. Systematic reviews have been introduced as a more rigorous approach to ...
Introduction. Literature review is an essential feature of academic research. Fundamentally, knowledge advancement must be built on prior existing work. To push the knowledge frontier, we must know where the frontier is. By reviewing relevant literature, we understand the breadth and depth of the existing body of work and identify gaps to explore.
As mentioned previously, there are a number of existing guidelines for literature reviews. Depending on the methodology needed to achieve the purpose of the review, all types can be helpful and appropriate to reach a specific goal (for examples, please see Table 1).These approaches can be qualitative, quantitative, or have a mixed design depending on the phase of the review.
The literature review is an essential component of academic research writing, providing a comprehensive overview of existing research and informing the development of new studies. ... The American social revolution that began in the late 1960s and extended into the 1970s drew attention to the unequal power relationships that exist across our ...
A formal literature review is an evidence-based, in-depth analysis of a subject. There are many reasons for writing one and these will influence the length and style of your review, but in essence a literature review is a critical appraisal of the current collective knowledge on a subject. Rather than just being an exhaustive list of all that ...
1. EXPLAIN KEY TERMS & CONCEPTS ¡ examine your research questions: do they contain any terms that need to be explained?(e.g. identity, discourse, culture, ideology, gender, narrative, collective memory) ¡ be aware that key definitions and background should be provided in the introduction to orient your reader to the topic. the literature review is the place to provide more extended ...
The aims of literature reviews range from providing a primer for the uninitiated to summarizing the evidence for decision making 1. Traditional approaches to literature reviews are susceptible to ...
Purpose and Importance of the Literature Review. An understanding of the current literature is critical for all phases of a research study. Lingard 9 recently invoked the "journal-as-conversation" metaphor as a way of understanding how one's research fits into the larger medical education conversation. As she described it: "Imagine yourself joining a conversation at a social event.
INTRODUCTION. Writing the literature review (LR) is often viewed as a difficult task that can be a point of writer's block and procrastination in postgraduate life.Disagreements on the definitions or classifications of LRs may confuse students about their purpose and scope, as well as how to perform an LR.Interestingly, at many universities, the LR is still an important element in any ...
Literature reviews are in great demand in most scientific fields. Their need stems from the ever-increasing output of scientific publications .For example, compared to 1991, in 2008 three, eight, and forty times more papers were indexed in Web of Science on malaria, obesity, and biodiversity, respectively .Given such mountains of papers, scientists cannot be expected to examine in detail every ...
Background: In this paper we discuss the emergence of many different methods for doing a literature review. Referring back to the early days, when there were essentially two types of review; a Cochrane systematic review and a narrative review, we identify how the term systematic review is now widely used to describe a variety of review types and how the number of available methods for doing a ...
A literature or narrative review is a comprehensive review and analysis of the published literature on a specific topic or research question. The literature that is reviewed contains: books, articles, academic articles, conference proceedings, association papers, and dissertations. It contains the most pertinent studies and points to important ...
These three lenses are suggested as being., breakdown, time, and narrative. EXAMPLE 3.3. Literature review by Patriotta. In a study of knowing and learning in organisations, a doetoral student adopted a cultural-historical and situated perspective on knowing based on activity theory.
Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.
CONCLUSION. Siddaway 16 noted that, "The best reviews synthesize studies to draw broad theoretical conclusions about what the literature means, linking theory to evidence and evidence to theory" (p. 747). To that end, high quality systematic reviews are explicit, rigorous, and reproducible. It is these three criteria that should guide authors seeking to write a systematic review or editors ...
A forthcoming systematic review on microcredit impact and women's empowerment by Vaessen et al. (forthcoming) has managed to conduct a meta-analysis including studies that are conceptually and methodologically diverse. The challenges and limitations of doing this are discussed in Duvendack et al. (Citation 2012).
This. paper discusses literature review as a methodology for conducting research and o ffers an overview of different. types of reviews, as well as some guidelines to how to both conduct and ...
Instead, a literature review for an empirical article or for a thesis is usually organized by concept. However, a literature review on a topic that one is trying to publish in its own right could be organized by the issues uncovered in that review e.g. definitional issues, measurement issues and so on. 3.3. Assessing the literature that was ...
A literature review may consist of simply a summary of key sources, but in the social sciences, a literature review usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis, often within specific conceptual categories.A summary is a recap of the important information of the source, but a synthesis is a re-organization, or a reshuffling, of that information in a way that ...
9.3. Types of Review Articles and Brief Illustrations. EHealth researchers have at their disposal a number of approaches and methods for making sense out of existing literature, all with the purpose of casting current research findings into historical contexts or explaining contradictions that might exist among a set of primary research studies conducted on a particular topic.
According to the University of Illinois (2022), literature reviews allow researchers to gain familiarity with the existing knowledge in their selected field, as well as the boundaries and limitations of that field. Creation of new body of knowledge. One of the key advantages of literature review is that it creates new body of knowledge.
The present methodological literature review (cf. Aguinis et al., 2020) addresses this void and aims to identify the dominant approaches to sample selection and provide insights into essential choices in this step of systematic reviews, with a particular focus on management research.To follow these objectives, I have critically reviewed systematic reviews published in the two most prominent ...
This review of qualitative research followed the guidelines for systematic literature reviews proposed by Bettany-Saltikov and McSherry (Citation 2016) and was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses -PRISMA (Page et al., Citation 2021). This systematic review synthesises subjective ...
Over the last two decades, numerous studies have highlighted the significance of integrating sustainability into higher education. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the literature on engineering education for sustainable development, emphasizing the inclusion of this concept within engineering curricula and recognizing the pivotal role that engineers play in achieving the ...
A key feature for urban digital twins (DTs) is an automatically generated detailed 3D representation of the built and unbuilt environment from aerial imagery, footprints, LiDAR, or a fusion of these. Such 3D models have applications in architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, construction, real estate, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and many other areas. While the ...
Then, how the molecular engineering affects the viologen properties is discussed to address the limitations of current viologen-based AORFBs. Through presenting some representative examples, we further elaborate the impacts of the properties of designed viologens on the battery performance when paired with organic or inorganic posolyte.
Background: Post-operative pain management is essential for optimizing recovery, patient comfort, and satisfaction. Peripheral nerve blockade, or lumbar plexus block (LPB), has been widely used for analgesia and regional anesthesia. This study explored the existing literature to determine the efficacy of continuous lumbar plexus blockade in managing post-operative pain following hip or femur ...
Purpose Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) as a regenerative therapy has gained interest in the field of andrology for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) and Peyronie's disease (PD). This systematic review aims to critically evaluate the current evidence on the use of PRP for these conditions. Methods We performed a systematic literature search according to the PRISMA guidelines using PubMed ...
This paper reviews forty years of research applying econometric models of discrete-continuous choice to analyze residential demand for energy. The review is primarily from the perspective of economic theory. We examine how well the utility-theoretic models developed in the literature match data that is commonly available on residential energy use, and we highlight the modeling challenges that ...