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How does everyone do their lterature reviews? [duplicate]
I have to do a literature review and have never done one before. What are some methods to do this?
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Google Scholar does not return a report of 2016 when using as custom range 2016-2023
When searching for the string "open* education*" selecting Anytime, Google Scholar returns as 4th result "Opening up education: A support framework for higher education institutions&...
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Literature research: Are IEEE and ACM covered in Scopus?
We performed a systematic literature review using the three databases Scopus, ACM Digital Library, and IEEE Xplore. Comment from one reviewer was that Scopus contains the other two databases, and thus ...
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Limits of academic search engines
Having spent quite a lot of time going through the literature on my research topic, I've been disappointed by the search features offered by the dominant academic databases and search engine (Web of ...
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How do you manage your literature and references?
I have many PDFs (articles, reports and other literature) in various folders, and most of them are also in Endnote, which I have always used as a reference manager. However, the references in Endnote ...
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What would be the best search method to conduct a literature review on anatomical variations? [closed]
I'm currently conducting a literature review into anatomical variations of the portal vein. I'm using OVID and just wanted to check whether this is an efficient search strategy.
This is the Search ...
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Systematic Literature Review: enhance context in discussion
Currently I am writing a Systematic Literature Review. I am aware of the systematic approach. But do the papers also constrain my discussion? Am I allowed to widen the frame by including related facts ...
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How can I tell that I have done enough literature research? Is there a specific amount of time one should devote to it? [closed]
Finding and gathering references can be a quite time-consuming task as it demands one to get accustomed with the terminology and concepts of the related topic / area.
How much time should one devote ...
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Search techniques for finding references at the start of reviewing the literature for your research?
Whenever we start new research, we need to do a literature review first in order to both get acquainted with the context and the concepts related to our research as well as to situate our research ...
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How to broadly assess the state of research for a topic? [duplicate]
This is coming from a non-PhD, please help me out:
If I have a broad interest in a topic, and I want to assess what are the current (in the last 5 years I guess) high-impact research done in said ...
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How to manage literature when writing a dissertation/paper [duplicate]
How do you manage (workflow) writing the literature review for a paper or a dissertation?
Unfortunately my current method of going on binge reading stretches while scribbling notes on random bits of ...
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Google Scholar Syntax quirks: results depend on order of search strings [closed]
I am working on a systematic literature review and noticed something quite disturbing since I want to base my work on Google Scholar results: The number and actual results returned by Google Scholar ...
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Can I cite almost total literature survey from a textbook unit?
Suppose I'm writing a research paper on topic T.
Additionally, suppose there is a textbook or research paper on topic T that covers all the progress of the topic from its initial time to 2018 ...
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Equivalents of PubMed in other fields
I work in biomedical sciences, and whenever I need to look up an article - or find recent references about a certain field of biology - I just go to PubMed, because it collects information from the ...
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Alternatives to Google Scholar for citation / lit search / BibTex entries? [closed]
Simple question: What alternatives are there to Google Scholar for finding citations, doing lit searches, and most importantly, downloading citation data in BibTex?
There are lots of specialized ...
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