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  1. 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 ...

  2. Writing a Literature Review

    A literature review is a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis ). 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).

  3. Approaching literature review for academic purposes: The Literature

    Interestingly, many postgraduate students choose to submit their LR to peer-reviewed journals. As LRs are critical evaluations of current knowledge, they are indeed publishable material, even in the form of narrative or systematic reviews. ... (how to develop the literature review section). The LR can cover the literature from one or more ...

  4. 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.

  5. What Is Peer Review?

    The most common types are: Single-blind review. Double-blind review. Triple-blind review. Collaborative review. Open review. Relatedly, peer assessment is a process where your peers provide you with feedback on something you've written, based on a set of criteria or benchmarks from an instructor.

  6. What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is a review and synthesis of existing research on a topic or research question. 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 ...

  7. Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

    A search on EBSCOhost using keywords "review methodology," "literature review," and "research synthesis" returned 653 records of peer-reviewed articles. After initial title screening, we found twenty-two records related to the methodology of literature review.

  8. Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic

    A literature review - or a review article - is "a study that analyzes and synthesizes an existing body of literature by identifying, challenging, and advancing the building blocks of a theory through an examination of a body (or several bodies) of prior work (Post et al. 2020, p. 352).Literature reviews as standalone pieces of work may allow researchers to enhance their understanding of ...

  9. 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.

  10. Everything You Need to Know About Peer Review

    All academic peer-reviewed journals are critically dependent on high-quality peer review, and we consider the purpose of peer review is to filter what work will find its way into the literature. This process allows journals like Heart, Lung and Circulation to reassure readers that only articles that are both credible and relevant are being ...

  11. Chapter 9 Methods for Literature Reviews

    The so-called "review article" is a journal-length paper which has an overarching purpose to synthesize the literature in a field, without collecting or analyzing any primary data (Green, Johnson, ... and expose students to peer-reviewed literature (Green et al., 2006). For researchers, narrative reviews can inspire research ideas by ...

  12. Peer review guidance: a primer for researchers

    The peer review process is essential for evaluating the quality of scholarly works, suggesting corrections, and learning from other authors' mistakes. The principles of peer review are largely based on professionalism, eloquence, and collegiate attitude. As such, reviewing journal submissions is a privilege and responsibility for 'elite ...

  13. What is Peer Review?

    The terms scholarly, academic, peer-reviewed and refereed are sometimes used interchangeably, although there are slight differences.. Scholarly and academic may refer to peer-reviewed articles, but not all scholarly and academic journals are peer-reviewed (although most are.) For example, the Harvard Business Review is an academic journal but it is editorially reviewed, not peer-reviewed.

  14. LibGuides: Scholarly Articles: How can I tell?: Literature Review

    Literature Review. The literature review section of an article is a summary or analysis of all the research the author read before doing his/her own research. This section may be part of the introduction or in a section called Background. It provides the background on who has done related research, what that research has or has not uncovered ...

  15. Peer review

    Abstract. Peer review has a key role in ensuring that information published in scientific journals is as truthful, valid and accurate as possible. It relies on the willingness of researchers to give of their valuable time to assess submitted papers, not just to validate the work but also to help authors improve its presentation before publication.

  16. Peer Review vs Literature Review

    Peer Review is a critical part of evaluating information. It is a process that journals use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available, and articles from peer reviewed journal are often grounded in empirical research. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to ...

  17. Understanding peer review

    The peer review process. Peer review is a formal quality control process completed before an academic work is published. Not all academic literature is peer reviewed, but many academic journal articles and books will be. Peer-reviewed literature is sometimes also called "refereed literature". "Peer assessment", where peers and ...

  18. Demystifying the process of scholarly peer-review: an ...

    Further research could also investigate the role that peer-review training courses play in the feedback literacy development and practices of new and experienced peer reviewers. Since journal peer ...

  19. What is Peer Review?

    The peer-review process tries to ensure that the highest quality research gets published. When an article is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, the editor after deciding if the article meets the basic requirements for inclusion, sends it to be reviewed by other scholars (the author's peers) within the same field.

  20. Peer review

    A reviewer at the American National Institutes of Health evaluating a grant proposal. Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performance, and ...

  21. Full article: Children's Perceptions and Experiences of Their

    The following criteria were applied: 1) empirical and 2) peer-reviewed articles, 3) written in English, reporting on 4) children of parents with a mental illness and their perspective on their involvement in their parent's mental health care. Articles were also included when clearly reporting on the lack of involvement in care.

  22. CSR in times of crisis: a systematic literature review

    Using a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles within social sciences, extracted from Scopus and Web of Science, we adhered to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to screen 1022 studies, ultimately yielding a final sample of 33 key high-quality studies. ...

  23. Peer Review in Scientific Publications: Benefits, Critiques, & A

    HISTORY OF PEER REVIEW. The concept of peer review was developed long before the scholarly journal. In fact, the peer review process is thought to have been used as a method of evaluating written work since ancient Greece ().The peer review process was first described by a physician named Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi of Syria, who lived from 854-931 CE, in his book Ethics of the Physician ().

  24. Adaptation to climate change in the mountain regions of Central Asia: A

    Journal of Cleaner Production had the highest IF of 7.2. The journals in which more than one article was published included Water ... This systematic review assessed the peer-reviewed literature on CCA actions in the mountains of Central Asia using two international databases (WoS and Scopus) and the largest database of the Russian-language ...

  25. Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state

    It is worth noting that the scientific literature contains peer-reviewed articles which selectively cite flawed empirical studies to support the argument that masks are universally harmful. In 2021, for example, a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics claimed that masks increased the carbon dioxide content of inhaled air in children aged 6-17 ...

  26. Relationship between Personality Traits and Resilience of Transgenders

    The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy(ISSN 2348-5396) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal that examines the intersection of Psychology, Social sciences, Education, and Home science with IJIP. IJIP is an international electronic journal published in quarterly. All peer-reviewed articles must meet rigorous standards and can represent a broad range of substantive ...

  27. Are Low Emission Zones Truly Embraced by the Public?

    The search was restricted to peer-reviewed documents written in English and published as journal articles, conference papers, early access, proceeding papers, review articles, editorial material, correction articles, and book chapters available in both databases until 23 February 2024.