The Why and How of the Integrative Review
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D., Research Community Manager for SAGE Methodspace
A feature topic in the Organizational Research Methods journal, Rigorous and Impactful Literature Reviews, explores methodologies for conducting review research. Some of the articles are open access, the others are available until April 12, 2023.
Methodspace is highlighting this useful collection with a series of interviews with the researchers and related resources. Review research is an broad term that describes various types of review articles. Kunisch et al. (2023) define it as
a class of research inquiries that employ scientific methods to analyze and synthesize prior research to develop new knowledge for academia, practice and policy-making.
In this interview Dr. Matthew Cronin discusses the article he wrote with Elizabeth George, “The Why and How of the Integrative Review.” We also conversed about the importance of creative thinking to the synthesis process inherent in integrative reviews. Find his book with Jeffrey Loewenstein, The Craft of Creativity, at the Stanford University Press or your favorite bookseller.
More Methodspace Posts about Review Research
Critical appraisal of research papers is a component of everyday academic life, whether as a student as part of an assignment, as a researcher as part of a literature review or as a teacher preparing a lecture. Learn more from this post.