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Keyword Tips

Keywords are the main ideas in your topic.

  • "Quotation marks" keep words together "stress psychology"
  • AND searches all terms "stress psychology" AND workplace
  • Truncation (shift 8 to get the asterisk) searches multiple word variations. stress* - stressful, stressed, and stressors at once

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  • Words you read in abstracts, article titles, and subject headings

Empirical Articles vs Literature Reviews

Empirical Articles

Based on original research conducted by the authors.

  • Often include tables, charts, and graphs.
  • Includes sections like Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
  • Details how the study was conducted, including data collection and analysis.
  • Provides specific information about participants, experiments, and data.

Literature Reviews

Summarizes and synthesizes existing research on a specific topic.

  • Keywords like critical, systematic, scoping, or meta-analysis in the title or abstract, along with the term review.
  • Mentions combining data from several studies in the abstract.
  • Discusses various studies broadly without specific data or experiments.
  • Focuses on combining data from existing studies.
  • Lacks sections like Methods or Results.

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