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Unleashing the Search Hounds – So, you need a systematic literature search for your paper? Our search strategy design service is just the right thing for you.
Picture dissecting a research question as if it were a game of strategic block-building. We will take these aspects, or ‘blocks,’ and build the foundation of the search strategy.
To build these blocks, controlled vocabulary thesaurus terms are used to enhance search precision and comprehensiveness.
These are words or phrases that people naturally use in conversation or writing. We can screen for these in the title, abstract and author keywords.
We will hunt for keywords related to the aspects of the research question such as variations, plurals, synonyms and spelling differences.
Boolean operators are tools used in database searches that combine terms together.
Phrase searching, Truncation, Wildcards are all used to ensure an optimized search strategy
Transparency in reporting search strategies in research papers is vital for ensuring reproducibility, allowing others to verify and replicate findings. This is held paramount for any search strategy we create, including our search strategy design service.
What’s Included:
We will set up a search strategy based on your research question or topic, optimize the strategy and send it to you for approval before proceeding to the next stage.
Upon your approval, the search strategy syntax is translated to the other required databases. We search all databases, download the results, and remove duplicates.
A series of files is sent to you including a Logbook detailing the search strategy, a methods description for your methods section, publication-ready appendix tables and the start of the PRISMA statement.
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