{"id":18652,"date":"2018-09-07T02:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/conducting-a-systematic-literature-review\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T06:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:36:48","slug":"conducting-a-systematic-literature-review","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/conducting-a-systematic-literature-review","title":{"rendered":"Conducting a systematic literature review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Systematic literature review is necessary while performing secondary research. Systematic literature review searches, identifies, selects, appraises, and synthesizes research evidence relevant to the question using methodology that is explicit, reproducible, and leads to minimum bias. Systematic review assesses literature that answers a clearly formulated question. Watch this video to understand the distinction between literature review and systematic literature review and the various ways to conduct a successful systematic review.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>Related reading:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-young-researchers-guide-to-a-systematic-review\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">A young researcher&#8217;s guide to a systematic review<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/should-previous-systematic-reviews-and-meta-analyses-be-included-in-a-systematic-review\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Should previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses be included in a systematic review?<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-young-researchers-guide-to-writing-a-literature-review\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">A young researcher&#8217;s guide to writing a literature review<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-18652","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conducting a systematic literature review | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Systematic literature review assesses literature that answers a clearly formulated question. 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