Critical appraisal of research papers is a component of everyday academic life, whether as a student as part of an assignment, as a researcher as part of a literature review or as a teacher preparing a lecture. Learn more from this post.

Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, co-researcher for “The impact of algorithmically driven recommendation systems on music consumption and production - a literature review,” offers insights about the literature review process.

What is the difference between a literature review and a state of the science review? See an article by Dr. Joan Dodgson.

In this interview David Antons and Oliver Salge discuss the roles humans and machines can take to plan and conduct computational literature reviews.

In this interview Dr. Marc Anderson explains how and why to use citation context analysis to track impact of scholarly publications over time.

In the article “Theorizing Through Literature Reviews: The Miner-Prospector Continuum” Dermot Breslin and Caroline Gatrell pose an intriguing question: do you approach the literature review as a miner or as a prospector? They discuss options in an interview.

How do decide what literature you need for a review? See this post featuring an interview Martin Hiebl and related open-access article about sample selection.

Garima Sharma and Pratima (Tima) Bansal discuss ways to engage with managers, professionals, or practitioners to learn from the literature using a systematic review process.

In this interview Dr. Herman Aguinis and Dr. Ravi Ramani discuss the article they wrote with Dr. Nawaf Alabduljader, “Best-Practice Recommendations for Producers, Evaluators, and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews.”

Find tips for organizing and synthesizing methodological sources for your literature review.

In this interview Dr. Matthew Cronin discusses the article he wrote with Elizabeth George, “The Why and How of the Integrative Review.”

How can you use published literature as data? In this Methodspace interview Dr. David Denyer explains how and why to use review research.

A critical step in planning and designing research entails reviewing literature to situate it in a research tradition.

Want to design and plan a review study? Find open-access examples of systematic reviews, meta-syntheses, meta–analyses, and integrative literature reviews. Also, learn more with related SAGE books.

Review research has become a credible and legitimate form of scientific inquiry in various fields of science including management and organizational sciences. Find open-access articles with practical advice about planning a review study.

Find an open-access guide to archival research and links to archives you can visit online.

What kinds of documents or archived materials fit your study?