- Articles Searching – As stated previously in the other Research Tips posts, you can navigate to Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science and search the articles that related to your research by using specific keywords. You can also set alert as stated previously in Some Useful Research Resources using keywords that will automatically email you the relevant publications.
- Choosing an Article – Ensure you are reading a good paper by checking the impact factor of that paper, the citations of the paper and the authors’ background.
- How to Extract Info from Articles – Extract the important information from the paper, the authors information, the title of the paper, the Theory /theoretical background of that paper, variables, method, findings and implications, critical review/limitations.
- Importance of Reading a Paper Immediately – Avoid to save a paper and read it later since it is not a good reading habit and you will end without reading it due to procrastination.
- Final Matrix Outcome – Insert all information extracted from a paper and immediately put in a matrix. Example of literature matrix as stated below. Your literature matrix should become richer with more papers’ extractions.
