'To answer your question, I am not sure a systematic literature review exists. There are three completely separate methodological reviews: (1) literature review; (2) Scoping review; (3) and a systematic review.
Reading the title of your question, it will be assumed that you are looking for a systematic review methodology to suit the aim and objectives of your study. A systematic review is a systematic and rigorous method of amalgamating and synthesizing recent research to form a body of empirical knowledge from which decisions may be made.
There are three kinds of systematic reviews: PRISMA (qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies); (2) REAIM (a systematic review of interventions); (3) and AMSTAR (a systematic review of reviews). Each one of these designs will offer you a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a SR. Based on the nature, aim and objectives of your study you would have to select a particular systematic review methodology. A nice reading is the Cochrane handbook of systematic reviews which are mainly for interventions/ RCT, however, this would give you a great idea of what a systematic review entails.
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The content of your literature review depends on the topic and "problem" addressed in your study.
You should identify and discuss each concept or principle that readers need in order to understand and evaluate your methodology, findings. and conclusions. Make sure it is clear why and how each concept or issue is relevant to your study or problem.
Give frequent citations to other studies. At least half of the references should be within the previous five years.
See my attached research paper outline.
Method Research Study Manuscript Outline
The first important thing is that you must break the topic of research into various sub-headings and proceed in a flow. one review should be followed by other in a flow.
e.g. there is a topic " Design and Development of E-Learning Solutions"
The topic can be broken into subtopics to find literature suiting to your research.
1. E-Learning Desing
2. E-Learning Development
3. E-Learning Solutions
4. E-learning CMS and LCMS for design and development
Then accordingly start writing the reviews from the latest research first followed by the previous research in descending order as per the year of publication in a flow that will lead to proper understanding of the topic.
Hope you got the answer.
We have recently published guidelines for conducting systematic literature reviews. We used the example of SCM, but it can be adapted to other disciplines. You can find our article on my ResearchGate page. Christian F. Durach, Joakim Kembro & Andreas Wieland (2017), A new paradigm for systematic literature reviews in supply chain management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 53, Issue 4.
You can go through the following Articles. It may be useful:
Kindly go through this reference
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/tutorials/how_to_perform_a_systematic_review/index.html
and try to attend some webinars in the same
1- search (define searching string and types of databases),
2- appraisal (pre-defined literature inclusion and exclusion, and quality assessment criteria),
3- synthesis (extract and categorize the data),
4- and analysis (narrate the result and finally reach into conclusion)
Dear @Segun I. Popoola, I found this course useful to learn SR.
Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
https://coursera.org/learn/systematic-review
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