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Literature review methods

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Guidelines

Scoping reviews

Arksey, H., & O’Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, 8(1), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/1364557032000119616
JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis--Chapter 11: Scoping Reviews
Levac, D., Colquhoun, H., & O’Brien, K. K. (2010). Scoping studies: Advancing the methodology. Implementation Science, 5(1), 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-5-69
Pawliuk, C., Brown, H. L., Widger, K., Dewan, T., Hermansen, A. M., Grégoire, M. C., Steele, R., & Siden, H. (2020). Optimising the process for conducting scoping reviews. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, bmjebm-2020-111452. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111452 [links to pre-print]
Peters, M. D. J., Godfrey, C. M., Khalil, H., McInerney, P., Parker, D., & Soares, C. B. (2015). Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 13(3), 141–146. https://doi.org/10.1097/XEB.0000000000000050

Systematic reviews

Briner, R., & Denyer, D. (2012). Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis as a Practice and Scholarship Tool. In The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Management (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199763986.013.0007
Denyer, D., & Tranfield, D. (2009). Producing a systematic review. In D. Buchanan, & A. Bryman (Eds.), The Sage handbook of organizational research methods (pp. 671–689). Los Angeles, CA and London: SAGE Ltd.
Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.2 (updated February 2021). Cochrane, 2021. www.training.cochrane.org/handbook.
Institute of Medicine. (2011). Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13059
Kitchenham, B.A., Brereton, P., & Budgen, D. (2015). Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews (1st ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Purssell, E., & McCrae, N. (2020). How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review : A Guide for Healthcare Researchers, Practitioners and Students. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Thomé, A., Scavarda, L., & Scavarda, A. (2016). Conducting systematic literature review in operations management. Production Planning & Control, 27(5), 408–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1129464
Zawacki-Richter, O., Kerres, M., Bedenlier, S., Bond, M., & Buntins, K. (2020). Systematic Reviews in Educational Research Methodology, Perspectives and Application (1st ed. 2020.). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27602-7
Webb, C., & Roe, B. H. (2007). Reviewing research evidence for nursing practice systematic reviews. Blackwell Pub.

Qualitative synthesis

eMERGe - qualitative synthesis through meta-ethnography
Lockwood C, Porrit K, Munn Z, Rittenmeyer L, Salmond S, Bjerrum M, Loveday H, Carrier J, Stannard D. Chapter 2: Systematic reviews of qualitative evidence. In: Aromataris E, Munn Z (Editors). JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. JBI, 2020. https://synthesismanual.jbi.global. https://doi.org/10.46658/JBIMES-20-03
Malterud, K. (2019). Qualitative Metasynthesis: A Research Method for Medicine and Health Sciences (1st ed.). Routledge.