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  1. How to write a systematic literature review [9 steps]

    Screen the literature. Assess the quality of the studies. Extract the data. Analyze the results. Interpret and present the results. 1. Decide on your team. When carrying out a systematic literature review, you should employ multiple reviewers in order to minimize bias and strengthen analysis.

  2. Steps of a Systematic Review

    Image by TraceyChandler. Steps to conducting a systematic review. Quick overview of the process: Steps and resources from the UMB HSHSL Guide. YouTube video (26 min); Another detailed guide on how to conduct and write a systematic review from RMIT University; A roadmap for searching literature in PubMed from the VU Amsterdam; Alexander, P. A. (2020).

  3. How-to conduct a systematic literature review: A quick guide for

    Method details Overview. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is a research methodology to collect, identify, and critically analyze the available research studies (e.g., articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations) through a systematic procedure [12].An SLR updates the reader with current literature about a subject [6].The goal is to review critical points of current knowledge on a ...

  4. Guidelines for writing a systematic review

    Guidelines for writing a systematic review. 1. Introduction. A key feature of any academic activity is to have a sufficient understanding of the subject area under investigation and thus an awareness of previous research. Undertaking a literature review with an analysis of the results on a specific issue is required to demonstrate sufficient ...

  5. How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and

    Systematic reviews are characterized by a methodical and replicable methodology and presentation. They involve a comprehensive search to locate all relevant published and unpublished work on a subject; a systematic integration of search results; and a critique of the extent, nature, and quality of evidence in relation to a particular research question.

  6. Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

    Literature reviews establish the foundation of academic inquires. However, in the planning field, we lack rigorous systematic reviews. In this article, through a systematic search on the methodology of literature review, we categorize a typology of literature reviews, discuss steps in conducting a systematic literature review, and provide suggestions on how to enhance rigor in literature ...

  7. Chapter 1: Starting a review

    Investing effort in designing a systematic review will make the process more manageable and help to inform key priorities for the review. Defining the question, referring to it throughout, and using appropriate methods to address the question focuses the analysis and reporting, ensuring the review is most likely to inform treatment decisions ...

  8. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis: A Guide for Beginners

    Systematic reviews involve the application of scientific methods to reduce bias in review of literature. The key components of a systematic review are a well-defined research question, comprehensive literature search to identify all studies that potentially address the question, systematic assembly of the studies that answer the question, critical appraisal of the methodological quality of the ...

  9. 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.

  10. How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review

    How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review A Guide for Healthcare Researchers, Practitioners and Students. ... The systematic review is a rigorous method of collating and synthesizing evidence from multiple studies, producing a whole greater than the sum of parts. This textbook is an authoritative and accessible guide to an activity that is ...

  11. How to Write a Systematic Review: A Narrative Review

    Background. A systematic review, as its name suggests, is a systematic way of collecting, evaluating, integrating, and presenting findings from several studies on a specific question or topic.[] A systematic review is a research that, by identifying and combining evidence, is tailored to and answers the research question, based on an assessment of all relevant studies.[2,3] To identify assess ...

  12. Systematic Review

    A systematic review is a type of review that uses repeatable methods to find, select, and synthesize all available evidence. It answers a clearly formulated research question and explicitly states the methods used to arrive at the answer. Example: Systematic review. In 2008, Dr. Robert Boyle and his colleagues published a systematic review in ...

  13. How-to conduct a systematic literature review: A quick guide for

    Abstract. Performing a literature review is a critical first step in research to understanding the state-of-the-art and identifying gaps and challenges in the field. A systematic literature review is a method which sets out a series of steps to methodically organize the review. In this paper, we present a guide designed for researchers and in ...

  14. PDF How to Write a Systematic Review: A Step-by-Step Guide

    fined criteria in order to answer a research question. The quantitative combination and statistical synthesis of the systema. cally-collected data is what defines a meta-analysis. Here, we first attempt to delineate the basic steps for conducting a systematic review: initial planning, conduc.

  15. How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and

    Systematic reviews are characterized by a methodical and replicable methodology and presentation. They involve a comprehensive search to locate all relevant published and unpublished work on a subject; a systematic integration of search results; and a critique of the extent, nature, and quality of evidence in relation to a particular research question. The best reviews synthesize studies to ...

  16. Easy guide to conducting a systematic review

    The meticulous nature of the systematic review research methodology differentiates a systematic review from a narrative review (literature review or authoritative review). This paper provides a brief step by step summary of how to conduct a systematic review, which may be of interest for clinicians and researchers.

  17. Steps in Conducting a Literature Review

    A literature review is an integrated analysis-- not just a summary-- of scholarly writings and other relevant evidence related directly to your research question. That is, it represents a synthesis of the evidence that provides background information on your topic and shows a association between the evidence and your research question.

  18. How to Write a Systematic Review of the Literature

    This article provides a step-by-step approach to conducting and reporting systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in the domain of healthcare design and discusses some of the key quality issues associated with SLRs. SLR, as the name implies, is a systematic way of collecting, critically evaluating, integrating, and presenting findings from across ...

  19. Systematic reviews: Structure, form and content

    Systematic reviews: Structure, form and content. This article aims to provide an overview of the structure, form and content of systematic reviews. It focuses in particular on the literature searching component, and covers systematic database searching techniques, searching for grey literature and the importance of librarian involvement in the ...

  20. Literature Reviews

    Literature Review Definitions. Below are definitions from: Booth, A. Papaioannou, D., and Sutton, A. (2016) Systematic approaches to a successful literature review.London: SAGE Publications, Ltd. Mapping Review: "A rapid search of the literature aiming to give a broad overview of the characteristics of a topic area. Mapping of existing research, identification of gaps, and a summary assessment ...

  21. Choosing a review type

    Systematic review using only systematic reviews as subjects; Synthesizes systematic reviews of same topic; Assesses scope and quality of individual systematic reviews; Conducting umbrella reviews. Belbasis L, Bellou V, Ioannidis JPA. BMJ Medicine. 2022;1(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjmed-2021-000071. PubMed PMID: 36936579

  22. Five steps to conducting a systematic review

    Reasons for inclusion and exclusion should be recorded. Step 3: Assessing the quality of studies. Study quality assessment is relevant to every step of a review. Question formulation (Step 1) and study selection criteria (Step 2) should describe the minimum acceptable level of design.

  23. How to write a literature review introduction (+ examples)

    The literature review method: If applicable, describe the methodology employed in your literature review, especially if it is a systematic review or follows a specific research framework. The main findings or insights of the literature review: Summarize the key discoveries, insights, or trends that have emerged from your comprehensive review of ...

  24. How-to conduct a systematic literature review: A quick guide for

    Performing a literature review is a critical first step in research to understanding the state-of-the-art and identifying gaps and challenges in the field. A systematic literature review is a method which sets out a series of steps to methodically organize the review. In this paper, we present a guide designed for researchers and in particular ...

  25. 4IR Applications in the Transport Industry: Systematic Review of the

    Several systematic literature review research works have been carried out on the general influence and impact of 4IR technologies on the transportation sector. The authors of developed a simulation model to evaluate various traffic scenarios involving truck platoons. The authors reviewed the issue of the safety of mixed traffic flows involving ...

  26. Systematically Reviewing the Literature: Building the Evidence for

    Systematic reviews that summarize the available information on a topic are an important part of evidence-based health care. There are both research and non-research reasons for undertaking a literature review. It is important to systematically review the literature when one would like to justify the need for a study, to update personal ...

  27. What Makes an Individual More Innovative? a Systematic Review on

    A systematic literature review was developed, with the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of 63 academic papers. We advance the literature by systematising the literature and highlighting the existence of two perspectives that address individual innovation competencies (IIC). One perspective that addresses aspects of the individual's ...

  28. Guidance to best tools and practices for systematic reviews

    Choice of an appropriate tool for the evaluation of a systematic review first involves identification of the underlying construct to be assessed. For systematic reviews of interventions, recommended tools include AMSTAR-2 and ROBIS for appraisal of conduct and PRISMA 2020 for completeness of reporting.