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How to conduct a systematic review
Published: 30 May 2025
GCUA 2030 hosted a successful webinar together with SLU Library and SLU Global on the theme "How to conduct a systematic review". The webinar was open for all GCUA 2030 members and more than 70 participants joined. WIth over 230 registrations, the webinar was recorded for those not able to join live.
Watch the webinar here
Here are some key take-aways from the webinar:
A systematic review has a clearly formulated research question with pre-defined selection criteria. It is characterised by systematic and clear methods for searching, selecting and critically assessing relevant research.
A systematic review has four cornerstones, it should be:
- Comprehensive. The overall goal of a search strategy for a systematic literature review is to be comprehensive and exhaustive.
- Transparent. Accurate documentation is very important, documenting the choices made throughout the process.
- Reproducible. The documentation is also important to be able to reproduce the review.
- Designed to minimise bias. By searching in several databases, including grey literature to avoid publication bias and having at least two reviewers in the screening.
It takes a lot of resources, not least time, to perform a full systematic review. But keep in mind, not everything needs to be a full systematic review.
Look at what has already been published, reach out to your network for usful insight, and to librarians/informations specialists for the literature search, and method support.
This and much more can be found on the SLU University Library's Support for systematic Reviews page (https://www.slu.se/en/subweb/library/use-the-library/search-and-find/support-for-systematic-reviews/)