Literature Review Flashcards
Purpose of Literature Review
To identify, collect, analyze, and summarize scientific results, providing a framework for new research by understanding what has been discovered.
Literature Review Process
An iterative process involving defining questions, formulating and conducting searches, evaluating results, managing and recording searches and results.
Simplified Literature Review
Aims to identify seminal work and recent developments in a delimited area to motivate research gap/problem.
Systematic Literature Mapping
Provides a big-picture structure of a research area by categorizing papers into areas or clusters of topics.
Systematic Literature Review
Evaluates all available research relevant to a question or area of interest using a rigorous and auditable methodology.
Literature Review Protocol
A document specifying search terms, databases, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and quality assessment functions for replicability and organization.
Steps in Systematic Review
Formulate search strategy, refine search, identify databases, review results, manage results, evaluate and record the search process.
From Literature Review to Research Problem
A literature review helps in identifying a research gap and formulating a scientific problem or research questions by summarizing relevant work.
Bias in Literature Reviews
Includes selection bias, publication bias, language and geographic bias, which can skew conclusions. Ethical protocols should address these biases.
Ensuring Ethical Standards in literature reviews
Maintaining replicability, transparency, and inclusivity in literature reviews to uphold ethical standards and provide a comprehensive overview.
