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  1. 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.

  2. Literature review as a research methodology: An ...

    This paper discusses literature review as a methodology for conducting research and offers an overview of different types of reviews, as well as some guidelines to how to both conduct and evaluate a literature review paper. It also discusses common pitfalls and how to get literature reviews published. 1.

  3. Writing a Literature Review

    The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of literature such as novels and plays). When we say "literature review" or refer to "the literature," we are talking about the research (scholarship) in a given field. You will often see the terms "the research," "the ...

  4. Writing a literature review

    Writing a literature review requires a range of skills to gather, sort, evaluate and summarise peer-reviewed published data into a relevant and informative unbiased narrative. Digital access to research papers, academic texts, review articles, reference databases and public data sets are all sources of information that are available to enrich ...

  5. Research Guides: Literature Reviews: What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is meant to analyze the scholarly literature, make connections across writings and identify strengths, weaknesses, trends, and missing conversations. A literature review should address different aspects of a topic as it relates to your research question. A literature review goes beyond a description or summary of the ...

  6. Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to Guide

    "A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. As a piece of writing, the literature review must be ...

  7. Steps in Conducting a Literature Review

    A literature review is important because it: Explains the background of research on a topic. Demonstrates why a topic is significant to a subject area. Discovers relationships between research studies/ideas. Identifies major themes, concepts, and researchers on a topic. Identifies critical gaps and points of disagreement.

  8. What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research. There are five key steps to writing a literature review: Search for relevant literature. Evaluate sources. Identify themes, debates and gaps.

  9. How to write a superb literature review

    Literature reviews are important resources for scientists. They provide historical context for a field while offering opinions on its future trajectory. ... When I was a research student, review ...

  10. How to Write a Literature Review: Six Steps to Get You from ...

    Step One: Decide on your areas of research: Before you begin to search for articles or books, decide beforehand what areas you are going to research. Make sure that you only get articles and books in those areas, even if you come across fascinating books in other areas. A literature review I am currently working on, for example, explores ...

  11. Methodological Approaches to Literature Review

    A literature review is defined as "a critical analysis of a segment of a published body of knowledge through summary, classification, and comparison of prior research studies, reviews of literature, and theoretical articles." (The Writing Center University of Winconsin-Madison 2022) A literature review is an integrated analysis, not just a summary of scholarly work on a specific topic.

  12. 5. The Literature Review

    A literature review surveys prior research published in books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated. Literature reviews are designed to ...

  13. Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

    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.

  14. What is a Literature Review? How to Write It (with Examples)

    A literature review is a critical analysis and synthesis of existing research on a particular topic. It provides an overview of the current state of knowledge, identifies gaps, and highlights key findings in the literature. 1 The purpose of a literature review is to situate your own research within the context of existing scholarship ...

  15. Literature Review (Chapter 4)

    A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources that establishes familiarity with and an understanding of current research in a particular field. It includes a critical analysis of the relationship among different works, seeking a synthesis and an explanation of gaps, while relating findings to the project at hand.

  16. PDF Conducting a Literature Review

    Literature Review A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources that provides an overview of a particular topic. Literature reviews are a collection of ... and the publication'srelationship to your research question. A literature review is an overview of the topic, an explanation of how publications differ from one another, ...

  17. 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 ...

  18. 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 ...

  19. Conducting a Literature Review: Why Do A Literature Review?

    This book looks at literature review in the process of research design, and how to develop a research practice that will build skills in reading and writing about research literature--skills that remain valuable in both academic and professional careers. Literature review is approached as a process of engaging with the discourse of scholarly ...

  20. Literature Reviews

    Literature reviews provide you with a handy guide to a particular topic. If you have limited time to conduct research, literature reviews can give you an overview or act as a stepping stone. For professionals, they are useful reports that keep them up to date with what is current in the field.

  21. Literature Review Research

    Literature Review is a comprehensive survey of the works published in a particular field of study or line of research, usually over a specific period of time, in the form of an in-depth, critical bibliographic essay or annotated list in which attention is drawn to the most significant works. Also, we can define a literature review as the ...

  22. Critically reviewing literature: A tutorial for new researchers

    However, it is often the precursor for an integrative literature review - research that "reviews, critiques and synthesizes representative literature on a topic in an integrated way such that new frameworks and perspectives on the topic are generated" (Torraco 2005, p.356). Naturally, a mature topic that is very cohesive (e.g. the topic of ...

  23. Research Guides: Psychology: Conducting a Literature Review

    Steps for Writing a Literature Review. 1. Identify and define the topic that you will be reviewing. The topic, which is commonly a research question (or problem) of some kind, needs to be identified and defined as clearly as possible. You need to have an idea of what you will be reviewing in order to effectively search for references and to ...

  24. UCF Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Research Process

    Literature reviews in empirical research articles, theses and dissertations, or standalone review articles are considerably broader in scope and involve comprehensive literature searches. Literature reviews in academic papers are narrower in scope and requirements are typically based on course assignments. Often, students are required to locate ...

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    Literature search. Request literature searches on health-related topics to support research projects and publications. Virtual Reality Studio. Explore how virtual worlds can support education, research, and patient care. Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis . Librarians partner with researchers to conduct evidence syntheses.

  26. Linked Open Literature Review using the Neuro-symbolic Open Research

    The way scholarly knowledge and in particular literature reviews are communicated today rather resembles static, unstructured, pseudo-digitized articles, which are hardly processable by machines and AI. ... Allard Oelen, Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh, Kheir Eddine Farfar, Markus Stocker, and Sö ren Auer. 2019. Comparing Research Contributions in a ...

  27. Neuro-Ophthalmic Literature Review

    Article PDFs can be downloaded. Article PDFs can be printed. USD 455.00 Add to cart. * Local tax will be added as applicable. An HR, Lee BJ, Moon Y. Visual recovery time in patients with ethambutol-induced toxic optic neuropathy. Korean J Ophthalmol. 2024.Ethambutol Optic Neuropathy (AEON) is reported to occur in 1%, to a...

  28. Review article Research communities in cyber security vulnerability

    However, the number of manual reviews of the literature on cyber security is plentiful, including some works on ethical hacking and vulnerability assessments. [3] performs a manual review of vulnerability assessment literature, analyzing 54 papers from five major databases (ACM, Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Springer Link), dated 2017.

  29. The Economics of Private Equity: A Critical Review

    Alexander Ljungqvist. Share this: Private equity is a $3 trillion asset class, attracting many investors. This literature review synthesizes the main insights of the academic literature on private equity, focusing on its performance, value creation, and key aspects for investors. The Economics of Private Equity: A Critical Review Read PDF.

  30. A case of sodium bromfenac eye drop-induced toxic epidermal ...

    Archives of Dermatological Research - The 2016 UK Adult SJS/TEN Management Guidelines [] recommend utilizing the ALDEN scoring system [4, 5] to evaluate the likelihood of drugs causing TEN in patients exposed to multiple medications.After reviewing the medication history of the patient, considering factors such as drug half-life, TEN risk level, and liver and kidney function of the patient ...