Ten simple rules for writing a literature review

Given such mountains of papers, scientists cannot be expected to examine in detail every single new paper relevant to their interests [3]. [...]it is both advantageous and necessary to rely on regular summaries of the recent literature. The bottom-right situation (many literature reviews but few research papers) is not just a theoretical situation; it applies, for example, to the study of the impacts of climate change on plant diseases, where there appear to be more literature reviews than research studies [33].