Confronta i metodi

	Revisione narrativa della letteratura	Articolo di ricerca originale
Campo	Scrittura accademica	Scrittura accademica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1900	1665
Ideatore	Research community (traditional academic writing format)	Scientific research community
Tipo	Document Type	Document Type
Fonte seminale	Green, B. N., Johnson, C. D., & Adams, A. (2006). Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: secrets of the trade. Journal of Chiropractic Medicine, 5(3), 101–117.	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2023). Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. ICMJE.
Alias	narrative review, literature survey, interpretive review, state-of-the-art review	research paper, empirical article, primary research, journal article
Correlati	3	5
Sintesi	A narrative literature review is an interpretive synthesis of published research organized around themes, concepts, or historical progression rather than systematic search. Unlike systematic reviews, narrative reviews employ subjective study selection, do not require protocol registration, and prioritize depth of interpretation over exhaustive comprehensiveness. Narrative reviews are valuable for conceptual synthesis, exploring emerging fields with sparse literature, and providing historical context; they have been the traditional form of scholarly literature synthesis since the inception of academic journals.	An original research article is the primary vehicle for reporting new empirical findings in a discipline. Following the IMRaD structure (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion), it represents a researcher's novel data, analysis, and interpretation. The journal article format has been the gold standard for scientific communication since the establishment of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665.