Knowledge Synthesis · For decision-makers

Literature Review

What a literature review from Fuse looks like: how it is organized, what its pages read like, and what you receive at the end.

1 · The structure

How the document is organized

The sections of a typical literature review, with their usual length. Each project adapts them to its question and its readers.

Summary and key messagesA two-page summary of the main findings.
~2 p.
The question and the scopeWhat decision the review serves, and what it leaves out.
~2 p.
Where we searchedDatabases, reports and grey literature, and the criteria for keeping a source.
~2 p.
Findings, theme by themeOrganized by theme rather than as a list of summaries.
~18 p.
Knowledge gapsWhat the evidence does not yet answer.
~2 p.
Management implicationsWhat the findings mean for the decision.
~3 p.
Summary table of sourcesEvery study, its region, method and main finding.
~4 p.