scientific-thinking-literature-review

Topics in the source

• Literature Review
• When to Use
• Review Types
• Workflow
• 1. Define the Question
• 2. Plan the Search
• 3. Search and Log Evidence
• 4. Deduplicate

Use this skill when the task is to find, screen, synthesize, and cite a body of academic or technical literature. Building a systematic, scoping, or narrative literature review. Synthesizing the state of the art for a research question. Finding gaps, contradictions, or future-work directions. Preparing citation-backed background sections for papers or reports. Comparing evidence across peer-reviewed papers, preprints, patents, and technical reports. Narrative review: broad synthesis; useful for orientation. Scoping review: maps concepts, methods, and evidence gaps. Systematic review: predefined protocol, reproducible search, explicit screening and exclusion. Meta-analysis: systematic review plus quantitative effect aggregation. Ask the user which level of rigor is needed. If unspecified, default to a scoping review for exploratory work and a systematic review for publication or clinical claims. Convert the prompt into a searchable research question. For clinical or biomedical work, use PICO: Population Intervention or exposure Comparator Outcome For technical work, use: system or domain method or intervention comparison baseline evaluation metric Create a search protocol before col

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