Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences

Covers literature search, assessing heterogeneity, bias assessment, publication bias, and data extraction.

This book outlines the rationale for systematic reviews, giving worked examples from a number of fields. It builds skills and progressively builds tactics for systematic reviews.

Social work researchers, educators, and doctoral students who are interested in systematic reviews will find the step-by-step format of this book invaluable for conducting their reviews both in the form of rapid evidence assessments and in high-quality critical reviews.

In this article, separate quantitative and qualitative data synthesis is used. These strategies study characteristics and psychological flourishing outcomes, and a meta-integration of both types of evidence.

The search methodology applied and described in detail will be of value to academic librarians and to other education researchers who undertake systematic literature searches.

Assesses the merits and shortcomings of using different search techniques in retrieval of evidence in the social science literature.

Overviews, or syntheses of research findings, have become a popular approach to synthesizing and systematic reviews. Despite their popularity, few guidelines exist. This article draws guidelines for future studies.