Hello RG users,
Wonder if anyone is in possession of guidance differentiating distinct types of literature reviews
I am trying to decide on whether to use systematic, scoping, mapping review to approach my work.
Thank you for helping
Witold
Systematic literature review is mainly based on Cochrane guidelines which provides a detailed list of steps to narrow down the research gap.
Scoping follows systematic approach but does not bound researcher to the specific sources.
Mapping is an approach to visualise the sources of literature the reviewer wants to dig. It depends how reviewer plan to target the resources, visualise it and through that mapping gather articles. e.g. a researcher/reviewer may start from listing the good journals in the specific domain and then proceed by choosing articles from those.
Systematic literature review is mainly based on Cochrane guidelines which provides a detailed list of steps to narrow down the research gap.
Scoping follows systematic approach but does not bound researcher to the specific sources.
Mapping is an approach to visualise the sources of literature the reviewer wants to dig. It depends how reviewer plan to target the resources, visualise it and through that mapping gather articles. e.g. a researcher/reviewer may start from listing the good journals in the specific domain and then proceed by choosing articles from those.
The following article could be informative for you:
Grant & Booth, 2009. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 26, pp.91–108
Good luck with your research!
Br, Mika
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