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Questions about evaluating the current state of research on a topic by searching published material.

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What to do about an early, highly eccentric, reference?

So say you are writing a review which includes paper A, which claims to introduce a new idea to your field. In the course of reading surrounding literature, you find earlier paper B, which puts forward a very similar idea. Paper B is not cited by…
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Found one major literature review paper, how to differentiate now?

I started to write my own literature review today for my master's thesis and I found a very good paper which sums up/overviews the history and concept of the specific topic I am writing about. Usually I track down each cited source to read the…
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Tips on organising the survey of a large body of literature

For a paper I am currently writing, I am doing an extensive literature review on a subject which is much more vast than I had anticipated. Are there any specific tricks and tips for organizing ones reading when the body of literature is so large? I…
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A systematic review already exists in the literature. When is a newer one required?

Suppose that a systematic review on a topic X was published some (3-8) years ago by someone else, and it is currently still a useful source for what has been made before it was published. However, more recent works were also published…
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What is the correct tense to use in a literature review?

I am currently writing my bachelor thesis and have to do a small literature review for it. Unfortunately, I don't know which tense I should use. Do you write ? Hager et. al (2020) show/indicate ..... Hager et. al (2020) showed/indicated.... Hager…
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Can reading book review substitute reading the whole book in a literature review?

This book has 570 pages, a lot of information about my research subject and several studies are included. However, I don't want to spend my time reading it because one professor wrote already 12 pages review, emphasizing most important finding and…
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Is it okay to restructure a literature review to fit a broad topic?

I'm aware that most literature reviews follow a similar structure, which is: Introduce a topic Discuss and cross reference papers that cover this topic The literature review that I am covering is a very broad topic (medical applications for…
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Difference between the problem a paper is trying to solve and primary research questions it tries to answer?

If a paper takes up an approach to solve a problem, isn't that what makes up the primary research questions it is trying to address? I have been assigned to read a paper and answer a couple of questions based on it. One of the questions is to…
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Literature Review Confusion

I'm very new to the research domain and I'm extremely confused, let me explain further. For the literature review I've done assume that I have 1 topic, that comprises of three research papers say A,B,C. Now I put these papers in chronological order,…
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When mentioning a source in my literature review, how much detail should I add?

After reading several literature reviews, I noticed how quick to the point authors were when they mentioned a study. By that I mean they only discussed the results found within that study and didn't spend time going over how the study was conducted,…
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In a computing/software paper, is it acceptable to talk about alternative tools in a literature review?

I have to write a short literature review for a practical, technical white paper relating to computer security. Googling around, I find that most literature reviews focus only on previous papers or books ("purely" literature). I was wondering if it…
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What´s a good source to learn about literature reviews?

I read this: "All types of literature reviews including systematic reviews, integrated reviews, bibliometric reviews, content analyses, hybrid reviews, etc., as long as they are not descriptive, are encouraged". I only knew about descriptive…
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Is it acceptable to use mainly websites in a literature review?

I'm writing a literature review for a project and due to the nature of the project (website and database) I haven't used any books etc. I have used a number of websites to get information on subjects such as hosting a website and a database using…
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What is the key difference between the term "Research Gaps" and the terms "Literature Survey" or "Literature Review"?

The difference between the terms "Literature Survey" and "Literature Review" is covered in this question and answers. But how do they differ from "Research Gaps" in the context of a research proposal?
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Reporting a study twice in the literature review in thesis

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 information just to explain my problem. Now I have…
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