Importance of literature review writing in research article – pubrica

Need for literature in research article and dissertation:

Biomedical research is at its peak today and publicationsare also increasing exponentially in the last few decades necessitating the need for dedicated medical writing services with domain-related expertise. Despite this, the number of rejections is on the rise. A good literature review, identifying the area of research in a crisp manner and clearly defining relevance of the research are often lacking resulting in rejection of manuscripts. Biomedical literature review is the first step towards any research.

• Literature review explores previous research conducted in the field of interest, the limitations and conflict areas identified and the need for further research. This justifies the relevance and originality of the research work.
• It also helps one in understanding and formulating one’s area of research in a better manner and justifies the methodology used.
• Literature review helps connectthe statistical findings of the research with prior research statistics.

Use of literature review:

There are various circumstances under which one must do a literature review.

• Introduction to a primary research topic – This sets the context for the research article or dissertation by analysing previously published literature and clearly defining the place of the current research and its contribution to the advancement in the understanding of the topic in question.
• Systematic review –It is related to meta-analysis and provide a quantitative or less often qualitative statistic summarizing several papers.
• Secondary data analysis projects- It is a research project on its own and begins with a clear research question. The project aims at analysing available data in answering the question.

Source of data:

Data has been sourced from libraries as well as digital sources. This is a cumbersome activity which continues throughout all the stages of the study and hence, it should be started early in the phase of research.

Citations:

• Picking up articles for review is another art and one should have clear inclusion and exclusion criteria to perform a relevant review. Also, citations should be recent and not too old and outdated in current context.
• Adequate number of citations is often defined by the journal and that needs to be followed. Too few or too many citations fail to convey the crux in the correct proportions.

Organising data:

There are several ways to organize biomedical literature review and are used by PhD students for their biomedical dissertations.

• Scientific manuscript writing services commonly use chronological sequence for listing out literature for review. This is often the method adopted when we are talking about something that we wish to trace over time and the topic has evolved over the years.
• Another method often used in scientific article writing is a well-argued format grouping those with one school of thought together to contrast with those that are different from the first school of thought. This methodology is useful whenever there are two or more contrasting views that have probably been debated and still hold ground in different studies.

The road ahead:

Literature review guidelines need to be defined in more precise terms. There are many shortcomings in the review of literature in the absence of uniformity of performing this task. Bias is to be reduced by clear definition of the methodology that is the need of the hour.

And so:

With increase in the number of publications, it becomes important to set the factual context of the current research study that one wishes to get published. This is relevant to participate in the ongoing ‘dialogue’ on the subject and contribute positively to that area of research. A thorough and relevant review of literature is paramount for this.

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