- Formation of research question or problems
- Preliminary search to validate the idea to assure none had done it before
- Set the inclusion and exclusion criteria based on RQ and preliminary search
- Search strategy: Keywords used, boolean operators and filters
- Move to full text screening, apply inclusion/exclusion again. Report the new total.
- Start screening title and abstract based on inclusion/exclusion. Report the total selection.
- Write the protocol/ methodology, and seek for ethical clearance if required.
- Databases explored: WoS, Scopus and etc. Use Mendeley/Endnote to remove duplicates.
- Manual search by forward/backward snowballing
- Quality assessment based on specific criteria decided by authors
- Start reviewing all the selected papers and extract similar and differential information
- Produce literature matrix, and based on the outcome of matrix, start writing paper
LR – Writing Tips
Posted on February 21, 2022 ·
