Questions tagged [literature-review]
Questions about evaluating the current state of research on a topic by searching published material.
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Literature research: Are IEEE and ACM covered in Scopus?
We performed a systematic literature review using the three databases Scopus, ACM Digital Library, and IEEE Xplore. Comment from one reviewer was that Scopus contains the other two databases, and thus ...
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What does it mean for a review to be "synthetic"? [duplicate]
The term "synthetic" is often used to describe review papers, such as in the title
Multi-touch tables and the relationship with collaborative classroom pedagogies: A synthetic review
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Systematic Literature Review: PRISMA Statement vs. the PRISMA Protocol (aka PRISMA-P) Checklists?
Problem: I am confused about why it matters if one uses the PRISMA Statement 2020 checklist versus the PRISMA-P 2015 checklist for a systematic literature review. Therefore, I am looking to ...
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Writing a short paper focusing on recent advancements in a specific field
Is this an acceptable and common approach to write a short paper (maybe a letter) on a relatively broad topic (e.g. applications of deep learning in a specific field) with the aim of reporting recent ...
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Limits of academic search engines
Having spent quite a lot of time going through the literature on my research topic, I've been disappointed by the search features offered by the dominant academic databases and search engine (Web of ...
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How should I reference the original work in a survey paper?
For example, if I want to dedicate a subsection of my survey paper to another research paper, I believe I need to reference the original paper. However, how should I do that? This subsection will have ...
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How can I enumerate the past research to show my research is noteworthy?
I'm working under a professor as a research assistant. She is preparing a proposal for research she wants to do with unmanned vehicles. A part of this proposal is showing that the past research doesn'...
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Is there a way to automatically categorise a list of journals into disciplines?
I have a list of references from a systematic review and I would like to produce some summary statistics of roughly how many come from various different disciplines.
Is there a way of doing this rough ...
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how to read papers for writing a literature review article [closed]
After following a rigorous literature selection, inclusion and exclusion criteria, I have finalized (around 200) research articles for my review paper. However, now I don't know how to read those ...
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What exactly is a survey article (review article) in research?
I have seen many articles with the "Survey" tag. What exactly does a (survey article consist of? Does it contain all the history and work done related to the particular topic?
My concern: Is ...
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In my thesis, do all sources I've cited need to be mentioned in the Literature Review?
I'm writing a Masters Thesis and am just not sure if every source I've cited in my thesis, I need to disuss in the Literature Review?
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Systematic Reviews: Is there a systematic way to decide which databases and sources to search?
I am conducting a systematic review with meta-analysis soon and wondering, is there a systematic way to decide on which databases and other sources (publications and grey literature) to search?
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What makes a Literature Review paper good?
I am currently doing my research thesis project for my Masters/PhD in area “X”. As expected, the first 2 months has been literature review, to actually know what I am doing.
The thing is, I haven’t ...
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Reporting a study twice in the literature review in thesis [closed]
There is a paper that has used entropy feature in the beta band for subject classification and obtained a specific accuracy value. I am aware that there is no context here, but I put these minimal ...
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How to organize the thesis chapter on literature review when there are only a few past works on the topic?
I have to include an individual chapter on literature review in PhD thesis. While going through the theses of seniors in the library, I found that typically the chapter is 30-40 pages long and covers ...
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