Part I: Conducting a Systematic Literature Review—CONVERGE Extreme Events Research Check Sheets Series

This publication provides recommendations for systematically reviewing the literature to help researchers prepare to conduct extreme events research. Specifically, it recommends certain strategies for choosing search terms, search operators, databases, and other criteria to ensure that literature reviews are conducted in a systematic fashion that is objective, thorough, and reproducible. About the CONVERGE Extreme Events Research Check Sheets Series: The National Science Foundation-supported CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a series of short, graphical check sheets that are meant to be used as researchers design their studies, prepare to enter the field, conduct field research, and exit the field. The series offers best practices for extreme events research and includes check sheets that are free to the research community. More information is available at: https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/check-sheets.