Types of Inquiry with Review Research
by Janet Salmons, PhD, Research Community Manager for SAGE Methodspace
What is the status of research on a particular problem, how has the field evolved, what has been discovered? Review research goes beyond summarizing published literature. In the open-access article “Review Research as Scientific Inquiry,” Kunisch, Denyer, and colleagues introduced a way to address academic, practice or policy problems using prior research as data sources. Dr. David Denyer explains how and why to use review research in this Methodspace interview.
See a previous Methodspace post from Dr. Kunisch for additional resources, and follow this link for the unfolding series about review research.
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