Literature Review

Dr. S.N. Sridhara

Principal/Director
K.S. School of Engineering and Management, Bangalore
sridharasn1964@gmail.com

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 What is meant by Literature?
• Literature refers to collection of Scholarly
writings on a topic
• Literature can be obtained from ‘Primary
Sources’ and ‘Secondary Sources’
• Primary sources are first hand sources wherein
the first reported work is obtained. Ex: research
articles from scholarly journals, monographs,
white papers, News paper cuttings, speeches,
letters, autobiographies etc.,
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 Primary and Secondary Sources in Literature

• Secondary sources are non-original or second

had data information which might be a review
or comment on the data published in Primary
Source.
Ex: Research Summaries reported in text books,
news papers, research reviews etc..

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 Why Literature Search?
• To make a base for research.
• To gain knowledge in the relevant field
• To know the progress already made in the relevant
field (State of the Art)
• To make sure that you are in right path
• To identify the gap and to get the motivation for
the study
• To relate your results and publish in relevant
journals
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 Where to Search for Literature?
• International Journals (on-line & off-line)
• Conference Proceedings
• Books
• Internet (be more careful for correctness)
• White papers, in-house publications and
documents
• News papers, magazines, etc.,

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 Steps involved in Literature Review

• Searching for good sources and collecting

papers
• Sorting and Priotorising the papers
• First reading of papers and making notes
• Critical Reading and marking the highlights
• Comparative study of noted literature
• Writing the literature review with critical
comments
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 Collection of Information from Literature

• Prepare notes from each paper read

• Read the paper several times and understand the
concept clearly
• Note the major points from this paper in the words of
authors
• Add your critics to the paper
• Prepare a ready reckoner for the papers referred
• Literature review is a continues process and will
continue even after the thesis is submitted to note the
developments made in the relevant field

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 Collection of Information from Literature
• Prepare a ready reckoner in a suitable format as shown below
• This can be recorded in a A3 paper to include all the relevant information
• This reckoner will be of great help throughout the research studies and even
afterwards

Authors & Type of Tools Used Methodology Major Results Contributions

Title of Study used
Paper
Lin et al . Analytical Fourier Governing Identification of Comparative
……………… and Transforms equations limitation of study of both
Numerical and Finite solved in both both methods methods
Differences the methods
Shaw and Expt. Laser light Measurement of Dropsize Linking of flow
Shaw scattering dropsizes in distribution parameters to
technique spray and under varying spray
characterisation conditions characteristics

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 How to Write a Good Literature Review?

• Do not write annotated review:

Ex: (poor literature review)
Yehia A Eldrainy et.al [3] worked on multiple inlet swirler for gas turbine
combustors. This new swirler introduces air tangentially …….
Masato Mikami et.al [4] studied combustion of partially premixed spray jets.
Burning behaviors of partially premixed sprays …….

• Write a synthesis of the literature

The comparative study of relevant literature is a must instead of recording of
several statements from literature.

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 How to Write a Good Literature Review?

• Do not just record the observations made in

the paper
• Instead add your comments and critics
• Literature review must be of great help in
identifying the procedure, tools and
methodology used etc.. hence, the literature
review spreads across the entire thesis/paper

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 • UGC Approved list of Journals: (32,659
journals)

https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/

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 • The h-index is an author-level metric that
attempts to measure both
the productivity and citation impact of
the publications of a scientist or scholar.
• The index is based on the set of the scientist's
most cited papers and the number of citations
that they have received in other publications.
• The index can also be applied to the
productivity and impact of a scholarly
journal as well as a group of scientists, such as
a department or university or country.

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 • Scopus gives four types of quality measure for
each title; those are h-Index, CiteScore, SJR
(SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP (Source
Normalized Impact per Paper).
• Anyone can find all included journals on
the SCImago Journal Rank website. 
• According to the Scimago Journal
Rankings, Nature has the highest h-index (1011
as of 2016), and CA - A Cancer Journal for
Clinicians has the highest SJR (39.285 as of 2016)
and CiteScore 2016 (89.23 in the 99th
percentile). 
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 • Web of Science (previously known as Web of
Knowledge) is an online subscription-based
scientific citation indexing service originally
produced by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI), now maintained by Clarivate
• Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and
Science business of Thomson Reuters), that provides
a comprehensive citation search.
• It gives access to multiple databases that reference
cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-
depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within
an academic or scientific discipline.
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 Search Engines for Research Papers?
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ For Patents:
• http://scholar.google.co.in/
• http://papers.sae.org/Engines 1. https://patents.google.com/
• http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
• http://www.bioline.org.br/ 2. http://appft.uspto.gov/
• http://www.doaj.org/ 3. http://gpsn.uspto.gov/
4. https://worldwide.espacenet.com/
• http://www.plosone.org/
5. https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/patents
• http://www.bioone.org/
earch/search/index.aspx
• http://iopscience.iop.org/1468-6996/
6. https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
• http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/
• http://www.knimbus.com 
• http://search.proquest.com/
• https://sci-hub.tw/

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 Search Engines for Research Papers?
For Patents:

•  https://patents.google.com/ for all patents

• http://www.uspto.gov/ for US patents
• http://appft.uspto.gov/
• http://gpsn.uspto.gov/
• https://worldwide.espacenet.com/
• https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/patentsearch/search/index.aspx for Indian patent
• https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/ for Australian patent
• https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents.html for European patents

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 Exercise on Reading a research paper and
noting highlights

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 Role of Guide is limited to....mp4

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 Thank you

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