IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE REVIEW WRITING IN RESEARCH ARTICLE AND DISSERTATION ON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

An Academic presentation byDr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Pubrica Group:www.pubrica.comEmail: sales@pubrica.com

In BriefNeed for Literature in Research Article and Dissertation Use of Literature ReviewSource of Data Citations Organising Data Future ScopesConclusion

Outline

Today's Discussion

The main aim of any research is making relevant contribution to the field of research in a field and to be able to add relevant content to the ‘conversation’.

To achieve this, one must begin by understanding thecontext of the ‘conversation’.

And this important task is done by a properly conducted and documented review of literature.

In Brief

Biomedical research is increasing exponentially in the last few decades necessitating the need for dedicated medical writings ervices with domain-related expertise.

Biomedical literature review is the first step towards any research.

L iterature review explores previous research conducted in the field of interest, the limitations and conflict areas identified and the need for further research.

It also helps one in understanding and formulating one’s area of research in a better manner and justifies the methodology used.

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Need for Literature in Research Article and Dissertation

L iterature review helps connect the statistical findings of the research with prior research statistics.

Review helps in preventing duplication of research and avoiding redundant fields and is needed for good quality research paper.

Dissertation is an important requirement for completion of academics and literature review is an important part of this academic requirement.

I ntroduction to a primary research topic – This sets the context for the research article or dissertation by analysing previously published literature.

S ystematic review –It is related to meta-analysis and provide a quantitative or less often qualitative statistic summarizing several papers.

S econdary data analysis projects- It is a research project on its own and begins with a clear r esearch question.

Use of Literature Review

Data has been sourced from libraries as well asdigital sources.

This is a cumbersome activity which continues throughout all the stages of the study and hence, it should be started early in the phase of research.

Sources of Data

Picking up articles for review is another art and one should have clear inclusion and exclusion criteria to perform a relevant review.

Adequate number of citations is often defined by thejournal and that needs to be followed.

Citations should include those studies that areinconclusive or require further research.

Critical appraisal of the studies cited with an analytical review of the same is desirable.

Citations

There are several ways to organize biomedical l iterature r eview and are used by PhD students for their biomedical dissertations.

Scientific manuscript writing services commonly usechronological sequence for listing out literature for review.

Another method often used in s cientific article writing is awell-argued format grouping.

A reverse-triangle approach is where we start discussing based on the broader concepts and then gradually narrow in onto the topic of interest.

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Organising Data

A similar approach involves starting with the known facts supported by literature and then moving to the grey zones and the less known to the unknown debated areas.

Depending on the requirement of the topic of literature research, what is the outcome needed out of the literature search in context of the objective of the current study.

L iterature review guidelines need to be defined in more precise terms.

There are many shortcomings in the review of literaturein the absence of uniformity of performing this task.

Bias is to be reduced by clear definition of themethodology that is the need of the hour.

Future Scopes

With increase in the number of publications, it becomes important to set the factual context of the current research study that one wishes to get published.

This is relevant to participate in the ongoing ‘dialogue’ on the subject and contribute positively to that area of research.

A thorough and relevant review of literature is paramount for this.

Conclusion

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