I'm using Scopus and WoS databases.
My first approach was to make an exhaustive search of the big subject I'm interested in.After that, I'm trying to identify principal authors, top journals and seminal authors.
Any good advice when doing a literature review?
To me literature review is a mechanism that can be applied for numerous iterations until saturation is achieved (just like painting on a wall with numerous coatings until achieving satisfactorily outcome). Achieving saturation required rigorous literature review to be completed. Following points can be considered during literature review:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282604179_Excel_Template_for_Literature_Review_Catalog
Research Excel Template for Literature Review Catalog
How you write your literature review depends on your writing project. For a thesis or dissertation, you will need a thorough examination of your subject area.
But for a journal article, you need to be more focused. What is the specific information that readers need as background to understand your paper?
In a journal literature review, do not include something just because it is interesting. Include those things that are important for understanding YOUR research design, findings, and discussion.
Agree with all of the above ie that a well-executed literature review uncovers the gaps in the body of knowledge.
The researchers ability to be integrative ie to synthesise the various streams of thought and research that have been unearthed into a new perspective is a key capability that delivers the researcher's value-added contribution.
Any good advice when doing a literature review?
To me literature review is a mechanism that can be applied for numerous iterations until saturation is achieved (just like painting on a wall with numerous coatings until achieving satisfactorily outcome). Achieving saturation required rigorous literature review to be completed. Following points can be considered during literature review:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282604179_Excel_Template_for_Literature_Review_Catalog
Research Excel Template for Literature Review Catalog
The literature review serves as the foundation of a research. It acts as the backbone of the research. The stronger and synthesized the literature review is, the better the research is. Generally, the literature review should include the conceptual, theoretical as well as empirical review of existing body of knowledge pertaining a particular field of study. The relationships among variables, their concepts, underlying theories should be covered in literature review section or chapter.
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