Elements of literature review: For writing an effective review article

A literature review gives an overall synopsis from the available published research related works on a particular topic. It could be theoretical, thematic, or a methodical overview to arrange the existing knowledge at one platform as a basis of present knowledge. The current paper provides a simple guideline to understand the important elements towards writing an impactful literature review article. It has both the academic as well as a practitioner implication. The outlined steps and procedure will assist a new researcher and an experienced one equally in his/her research journey to synthesize the available vast amount of literature towards a new review article writing.