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Types of Literature Review

There are several types of literature reviews, each with their own focus and methodology. Systematic literature reviews require a rigorous approach and aim to be comprehensive within a timeframe. They can take the form of meta-analysis, which uses statistical analysis to detect patterns across multiple studies, or meta-synthesis, which integrates findings from multiple qualitative studies non-statistically. Narrative reviews critique literature on a topic and draw conclusions, while argumentative reviews selectively examine literature to support an argument.

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Types of Literature Review

There are several types of literature reviews, each with their own focus and methodology. Systematic literature reviews require a rigorous approach and aim to be comprehensive within a timeframe. They can take the form of meta-analysis, which uses statistical analysis to detect patterns across multiple studies, or meta-synthesis, which integrates findings from multiple qualitative studies non-statistically. Narrative reviews critique literature on a topic and draw conclusions, while argumentative reviews selectively examine literature to support an argument.

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Types of Literature Review

• There are many types of literature review. The


choice of a specific type depends on your
research approach and design. The following
types of literature review are the most
popular :
Systematic literature review requires more rigorous and well-defined approach
compared to most other types of literature review. Systematic literature review is
comprehensive and details the timeframe within which the literature was selected.
Systematic literature review can be divided into two categories: meta-analysis and
meta-synthesis.

When you conduct meta-analysis you take findings from several studies on the same
subject and analyze these using standardized statistical procedures. In meta-analysis
patterns and relationships are detected and conclusions are drawn. Meta-analysis is
associated with deductive research approach.

Meta-synthesis, on the other hand, is based on non-statistical techniques. This


technique integrates, evaluates and interprets findings of multiple qualitative
research studies. Meta-synthesis literature review is conducted usually when
following inductive research approach.
• Argumentative literature review, as the name
implies, examines literature selectively in
order to support or refute an argument,
deeply imbedded assumption, or
philosophical problem already established in
the literature. It should be noted that a
potential for bias is a major shortcoming
associated with argumentative literature
review.
• Narrative literature review, also referred to as
traditional literature review, critiques
literature and summarizes the body of a
literature. Narrative review also draws
conclusions about the topic and identifies
gaps or inconsistencies in a body of
knowledge. You need to have a sufficiently
focused research question to conduct a
narrative literature review
• Integrative literature review reviews,
critiques, and synthesizes secondary data
about research topic in an integrated way such
that new frameworks and perspectives on the
topic are generated. If your research does not
involve primary data collection and data
analysis, then using integrative literature
review will be your only option.
• Scoping literature review, as implied by its name is used to
identify the scope or coverage of a body of literature on a
given topic. It has been noted that “scoping reviews are
useful for examining emerging evidence when it is still
unclear what other, more specific questions can be posed and
valuably addressed by a more precise systematic review.”[1]
The main difference between systematic and scoping types of
literature review is that, systematic literature review is
conducted to find answer to more specific research
questions, whereas scoping literature review is conducted to
explore more general research question.
• Theoretical literature review focuses on a pool of theory that has accumulated in
regard to an issue, concept, theory, phenomena. Theoretical literature reviews
play an instrumental role in establishing what theories already exist, the
relationships between them, to what degree existing theories have been
investigated, and to develop new hypotheses to be tested.

• At the earlier parts of the literature review chapter, you need to specify the type
of your literature review your chose and justify your choice. Your choice of a
specific type of literature review should be based upon your research area,
research problem and research methods.  Also, you can briefly discuss other most
popular types of literature review mentioned above, to illustrate your awareness
of them.
• [1] Munn, A. et. al. (2018) “Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for
authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach” BMC
Medical Research Methodolog

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