Peer reviewing is critical in the process of legitimizing new scientific knowledge. Yet, there are concerns about its quality, especially if one considers developmental reviewing as an ideal. The present essay suggests three ways to improve review quality: provide reviewers with systematic feedback about their performance, reward active and good reviewers, and make reviewers more accountable by...

Assessments of the efficacy and safety of medical interventions are based on systematic reviews of clinical trials. Systematic reviewing requires the screening of vast amounts of publications, which is currently done by hand. In some cases systematic reviewers reduce thousands of publications to only a handful. Whereby, they maximize sensitivity and sacrifice specificity. To reduce the number o...

researchers in their reviewing of international market literature which practical experiences in iran indicate it demonstrate that to choose a foreign market there are two approaches: expansion and systematic approach. firms that use expansion approach, through the culturally and geographically similar markets starts working in international markets. however, in systematic approach, firms use a...

With the current emphasis on making “evidence-based policy,” criminal justice policymakers today are under more pressure to use research in their decision making. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses can provide policymakers with reliable and comprehensive evidence about what works to reduce crime or improve justice. It is important that decision makers become more familiar with this method. In...

This paper focuses on scoping studies, an approach to reviewing the literature which to date has received little attention in the research methods literature. We distinguish between different types of scoping studies and indicate where these stand in relation to full systematic reviews. We outline a framework for conducting a scoping study based on our recent experiences of reviewing the litera...

Literature reviews are central to any academic research. Whether journal article, conference presentation or research thesis it is necessary for all of them to provide an overview of earlier research in order to contextualize one’s own findings. More fundamentally, the beginning of any research is crucially dependent on an appropriate literature review. In recent years a supposedly new form of ...