Integrative review

How it is used

Explain how differing evidence types are evaluated and combined.

Example sentences

1. The integrative review combined survey findings with theoretical accounts of belonging.

   Empirical and conceptual sources contribute together.

2. Our integrative review developed a framework rather than a pooled numerical estimate.

   Integration can yield a conceptual account of the evidence.

Common collocations

• conduct an integrative review
• integrative review framework

Related terms

• review articlean academic article that summarizes, compares, and evaluates published studies on a topic instead of reporting one new experiment
• synthesizeTo combine ideas and findings from several sources into a connected whole that shows patterns, agreements and differences, rather than summarizing each source separately.

More terms: Literature Review

• literature review
• literature
• research gap
• theoretical framework
• seminal
• draw on
• build on
• primary source
• secondary source
• systematic review
• database
• meta-analysis