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Search for review articles, survey papers, bibliographies and systematic reviews in Google Scholar. Just enter your keywords (with quotes if necessary) and the search box will do the rest.

 

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What is a review article?

Review articles sometimes known as review papers or survey papers or survey articles, are attempts by authors to summarise the state of research in a particularly area. No original research is presented but usually the paper will attempt to summarise and even synthese all (or most important) prior research in an area into a coherent whole.

Not to be confused with a “peer reviewed journal,” Review articles are an attempt by one or more writers to sum up the current state of the research on a particular topic.

This above is an example of a review article summarising studies on effectiveness of class sizes and student achievement.

Somewhat related are meta-analysis papers and systematic reviews. Meta-analysis papers attempt to combine statistical findings from various similar independent studies using statistical methods. While systematic reviews rose from the medical field and are critical assessment and evaluation of all research studies that address a particular clinical issue.  Among other differences, they generally differ from more narrative or traditional reviews, by focusing on a single question, having a explict criteria and structured search methodology for searching for and including studies and are usually conducted by a team. 

 

Such papers are very helpful for your literature review because they:

  • Provide a broad overview of the area
  • Are a rich source of refernces for you to mine
  • Provide clues on jargon, language used and leading researchers to help you use as search terms for more precise searching.

Similarly bibliographies (listing of resources in a given area often with brief annotations) and thesis and dissertations can prove very helpful for you when you first begin your research or when you are considering topics for your thesis.

 

※ Some good sources of such material are