Literature reviews are an integral part of the process and communication of scientific research. Whilst systematic reviews have become regarded as the highest standard of evidence synthesis, many literature reviews fall short of these standards and may end up presenting biased or incorrect conclusions. In this post, Neal Haddaway highlights 8 common problems with literature review methods, provides examples for each and provides practical solutions for ways to mitigate them
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A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale o...
All agree that peer review is an area of scholarly communications that is ripe for innovation. Howev...
Last week the Impact Blog featured a post from Richard P. Phelps, in which he proposed that journals...
The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. It allows authors to summarise previous ...
Review papers play a significant role in curating the scholarly record. Drawing on a study of close ...
The current review system for many academic articles is flawed, hindering the publication of excelle...
Is the peer review process simply a means by which errors are identified and corrected? Or is it a p...
Justin Gest author of Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media asks why not publish...
In Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods, Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown offer an introductory, practi...
As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editor...
In this feature essay, David Beer argues that reviewing allows us to put collective knowledge ahead ...
Population health policies stand a much better chance of succeeding if they’re informed by research ...
Improving scientific publishing is often framed as an issue of openness and speed and less often as ...
Despite peer review panels being the most common way of selecting applicants for research funding, l...
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites, Monika Krause explores how scholars select ...
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale o...
All agree that peer review is an area of scholarly communications that is ripe for innovation. Howev...