On the benefits of systematic reviews for wildlife parasitology.

ABSTRACT: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are widely accepted as the best means to synthesise quantitative or qualitative scientific evidence. Many scientific fields have embraced these more rigorous review techniques as a means to bring together large and complex bodies of literature and their data. Unfortunately, due to perceived difficulties and unfamiliarity with processes, other fields are not using these options to review their literature. One way to provide guidance for a specific field is to examine critically recent reviews and meta-analyses and to explain the advantages and disadvantages of the various review techniques. In this paper, we examine review papers in the emerging field of wildlife parasitology and compare five different literature review types-configurative narrative revi

SUBMITTER: Haddaway NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5005428 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature