What is a “mapping study?”

Аннотация

You are familiar with those short literature reviews in the introduction of research studies. The author provides a brief background to the study, highlighting related research. You also know about review articles in which writers describe a batch of articles that they have selected. If there were a “reliability” spectrum of review articles, both of these would be on the low end—not because they are necessarily inaccurate, but because they were selected by the writer and may be biased.