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literature-review

Conduct systematic literature reviews — search strategy, screening, quality appraisal, synthesis, and gap identification. Use when mapping what a field knows on a question.

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# Literature Review

A literature review answers: what does the field know, how well does it know it, and what's 
missing. Done systematically, it's research in its own right — not a reading list.

## Overview

The method: define a focused question, design a reproducible search, screen studies against 
explicit criteria, appraise their quality, extract findings into a structured form, and synthesize 
— narratively or quantitatively. The review's value is in the synthesis: patterns across studies, 
contradictions explained, and gaps named. Every step is documented so another researcher could 
repeat it.

## When to use