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Hello Eliezer – Welcome to the forum!Yes, that would be a long time back in history, but still having resonance now, thanks to COVID-19. As your challenge is with search, here are some resources you may find helpful to improve your chances.Make your Google searches more preciseHow to make Web searches more preciseTips for effective literature searchingApart from that, you may also wish to consider our literature search service. Find out more here: Editage Literature SearchFinally, we would also suggest sharing your query in our Facebook group for researchers/academics, Researcher Voice. There may be someone (or more) there who may be able to take you closer to the information you are seeking. Visit the group here: Researcher VoiceHope that helps. All the best with your search – and research!

Your question isn’t entirely clear. You may have meant any of the following:How to write a review of a published scientific review article that you have readHow to write a scientific review paper yourself (which cumulates multiple scientific papers)How to do a peer reviewWriting a review of a published paperYou do this through a letter to the editor. Letters to the editor are short pieces providing comment or views on a published article. If the journal (editor) decides to publish the letter, they will perform a basic review of the letter and also include a response by the author(s) of the original article. For more information on letters to the editor, you may refer to the following resources.Should letters to the editor be checked for factual accuracy before publication?Is it ethical to publish a reply to a "Letter to the Editor" without publishing the original letter?Writing a review paperIf you meant writing a review paper, there are several types of review articles: literature review, systematic review, and meta-analysis. While these are stand-alone review papers, there are also literature reviews written as a part of a main paper. All involve going through existing literature and then talking about what relevant papers...

Overleaf (previously WriteLaTeX) is an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that makes the whole process of writing, editing, and publishing scientific documents much quicker and easier. ShareLaTeX is an online LaTeX editor that allows real-time collaboration and online compiling of projects to PDF format. Papeeria is a collaborative online LaTeX editor. It is free, and it runs everywhere, on desktops, iOS and Android, and on most of the modern browsers. Authorea is an online collaborative writing tool that allows researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data and publish. It has been described as “Google Docs for Scientists”.It would be difficult to give a detailed review of each of these tools on this forum, but the following articles can help you form a fair idea about them:Writing in the cloud: tools for collaborative writingOverleaf: Redefining scientific collaboration with a multilingual writing and publishing platformHow Overleaf helps authors from Asia and other non-English-speaking countriesOverleaf: A collaborative cloud-based writing and publishing platform for authors and publishersOverleaf partners with Editage® to offer its authors publication-ready language editing services