Where to start the search?
Boolean operators
Command And Purpose
AND: Look for articles that include all search terms/keywords
OR: Look for articles that include any of the search terms
NOT : Excludes articles that include a specific keyword
What to Pick?
- Same Focus as yours
- older than 3 years except for seminal papers
- Recognized Publication
- Expert Author
- Factor Journal
- Indexed Journal
- Conference
- Ask Experts
- ACM
- Good Citations
High in number
Cited by recognized publications
Reading Literature - PQRS
- Preview: preliminary reading (read the abstract, introduction, 1st sentence of each paragraph, and conclusion). Only read thoroughly when you are certain the information is relevant to your research area.
- Questions: What do you need to find out? What are the main questions and conclusions of the paper? Are there possible alternative interpretations of the literature?
- Reading: Be Active!" Search for answers to the questions.
- Summarise: Take selective notes. Use colour and space to organise (note template)
Four tips for Critical Reading
1. Read the paper 3 times:
- First read the abstract, the introduction, and the conclusion and look through the references.
- Next read through the entire paper starting with the abstract again. Don't skip over figures, re-read parts that you don't understand. Write down questions you have as you go along.
- Finally, re-read the paper critically.
- Did the authors do what they said they were going to do?
- What are the important ideas? (Maybe unimportant ideas)
- Do their results make sense?
- Are their methods sound?
- What assumptions are they making?
- how does their work fit in with other similar work?
- What improvements/extensions do they contribute?
2. Make an outline of the paper
- Create some organized information about the paper that will help to sort out the details
- Highlight the major points of the paper
- This can be as detailed as you need it to be
3. Create a list of questions
- bout parts that you don't understand
- About parts where you question their solution/ proof/ methods/results
- List comparisons of this paper to other related work with which you are familiar
Question the readings
Questions to ask when grouping sources
- What are the shared themes, ideas or issues presented?
- Does it appear that a gap is missing?
- What trends/developments are evident in the literature?
- What theoretical approaches have you identified?
Research Paper Summary Template
- Research Paper Title
- Reference (IEEE/APA format)
- IF of the Journal (if any)
- ISI indexed (In case of Journal) - Y/N
- The objective of the Research
- Application Domain
- Gaps identified
- Methodology/Approach
- Data Set (if any)
- Results Summary/Discussion
- Future Directions
- Limitations/Assumptions (if any)
- Why/How related to our work/objective
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