It is important to ensure that your research question has not already been answered in a recent review.
There are a number of organizations that list prospective, on-going, and published reviews.
Within business:
Within education:
Within health and welfare:
Other disciplines:
You can check for published reviews or protocols with a quick search in Google Scholar. Test entering keywords from your research question together with terms like: scoping review, systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, review protocol.
Test entering keywords from your research question together with phrases like: scoping review, systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, review protocol.
Alternatively, you can test entering your keywords and using the filter for document type in Scopus.
Test entering keywords from your research question together with phrases like: scoping review, systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, review protocol.
For example in PubMed:
Alternatively, test entering keywords from your research question and using any of the filters the database provides for reviews.
For example in PubMed:
For example in MEDLINE (EBSCOhost):
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