ESSC11004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Systematic Review, Quartile, Crossover Study
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What we know - we should be using peer-reviewed research articles. Because apparent experts in the eld have checked the quality of the work prior to publication. The catch- not all peer reviewed work is quality/good, some are very bias. A good rst step to nding good articles is identifying quality journals journals are ranked by web of science impact factor (if) or scimago journal. The higher the ranking the better the journal. Good scientists try to publish in the highest ranked journal possible and high ranked journals tend to have better scientists reviewing articles high ranked journals have better manuscripts submitted and better quality control in the review process. What we know now use peer-reviewed research research in high ranked journals tend be of better quality than research in low ranked journals. You look for a review as a review should provide a summary of all the research conducted in the area a research cheat sheet .
