Recommendations for Producers Evaluators and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews

We content-analyzed 241 methodological literature reviews published in 54 journals. Based on our review of reviews involving an inductive and iterative process, we derived 11 latent factors, and their 47 observable indicators, that provide information about critical components included in such reviews. We then offer best-practice recommendations that answer the following questions: 1) How can the motivation for and importance of the...