There are many different types of reviews, the most well known are
Systematic reviews are most commonly seen in health and medicine and a variation of this, the systematic literature review, is becoming more popular in other subjects including psychology and environmental science.
Contact your subject librarian for further assistance with systematic reviews.
Types of review:
Further reading
Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal,26 (2), 91-108.
Davies, A.(2019) Carrying out systematic literature reviews: an introduction British Journal of Nursing 28 (15) This gives a good overview of the process, PICO, PEO, SPIDER, ECLIPSE, SPICE, searching and Prisma.
This video is the recording of a webinar by Dr. Andrew Booth, describing the different types of reviews.
Booth, A. (2016) Fifty shades of review. [Webinar] Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sdcURH22O8 [Accessed 30th August 2022].