Searching for a Research Study

How to identify a research study

A research study must: • Ask a research question • Identify a research population or group• Describe a research method• Test or measure something• Summarize the results

• Research studies are almost always published in peer-reviewed (scholarly) journals.

• Articles that review other studies without presenting new research results are not research studies. Examples of article types that are NOT research studies include: literature reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, comments or letters relating to previously-published research studies

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Sample Search:

Diabetes

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Limiters –

Published Date from: January 2007January 2012

English Language;

Peer Reviewed;

Research Article

Results: 16,818

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Refine results: Full Text [Update]

NOW the list is : 6693

Let’s go back to S1 by clicking Review Results, click on #1

Then Click on the title of the first article

Now lets Find the full-text

After choosing the database we want to use, we have to navigate to the article

Keep your original citation handy and navigate to the article by either clicking on the current issue OR archives/previous issues.

**Articles are usually listed in page number order

If you do not see it listed, use the title or author ‘s last name in the search box for the journal to locate the article.

Choose PDF over HTML or Full-Text as this will include tables, graphs and images.

That is one way to locate a research study.

The next option is PubMed.Please go back to the Assignment Help tab on the PA LibGuide and click on the second box link for PubMed

Searches in the ‘Publication Type’ Field:

Case ReportsClinical Trial - Phase I, II, III, IV

Comparative StudyControlled Clinical Trial

Multicenter StudyTwin Study

Validation Studies

This means we don’t have it in print

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