I am conducting a systematic review on teacher resilience. Can I search articles from here but about the search string how do I actually do it and find the exact hit (a number of searches) and export them to excel?
Dear Fabiola Aliaj
Systematic reviews can take many forms. They can be scoping reviews, meta-ethanography, realist reviews, etc. To begin with, decide what kind of approach you want to pursue. Secondly, systematic review is a structured approach to gathering information, so be sure to pay close attention to all the steps that you will be following.
It's a long story, but the process is both informative and interesting. I can give you a few tips.
A) Formulation of Precise Review Questions & Eligibility Criteria
In a systematic review, the first step is to formulate the review/research question, abbreviated as PICO: population, intervention, comparative intervention, and outcome. The review question should be precise and focused.
Establishing clear inclusion and exclusion criteria requires a clearly formulated review question. This is a very crucial step, since it determines the generalizability of the results
B) Decide on the Bibliographic Databases
Among the databases you can search are Medline (OVID), Cochrane, EBSCO-hosted ERIC, SCOPUS, Embase (OVID), and the Web of Science as well. Don't forget the additional/grey literature such as unpublished studies
C) Determine the Boolean Search items
Determine the Boolean search terms; the same set of MeSH Terms/Free text was used across the other bibliographic databases.
Faraz Khurshid Thank you so much for your comments! Most appreciated. I have done all these steps and I am not in search of which data base I should search my data. I think for teacher resilience the best approach would be ERIC, Scopus, Web of science and EBSCO hosted? Due to lack of time I will only gather information from 2 maximum two search engines. Which one would you reccoment. Also it is costumary to use different search string for different engine? For example for ERIC I have created a slightly different version of my bollean Search terms because it suits better with the results.Am I allowed to do do?
Dear Fabiola, as long as the Bolean Search Items are constrained by the review question, I do not see any harm in doing so. My recommendation is to search through EBSCO-hosted Eric and Scopus. I have no idea about the web of science, but I would guess you will find relevant literature there as well.
Faraz Khurshid Thank you so much for your answer :) Most appreciated !
Kindly register your review protocol with PROSPERO
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
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