Literature review papers – a brief how-to guide

DISCLAIMER 1: This memo was written mainly with IDI phd students in mind, and might have varying relevance for phd students even within this one department, depending on their specific research project. The status and commonality of review or survey papers may be different in other disciplines, yet at least some of the advice in this memo would hopefully be relevant to students outside my own department. Also, while it may be difficult for students outside IDI to get much out of reading the example papers referred to in this memo sentence by sentence, this should not be necessary to get the basic message, which is more about how the papers are structured and why this may have contributed to their success.