Systematic Review: A Step-By-Step Guide

the fastest route to a high impact publication

What you'll learn

How to perform a professional systematic review

How to publish in high-impact academic journals

How to write in an academic style using our PEER system

How to use reference managers to save time

Requirements

This course has helped students publish who have no research experience or have failed to publish before

No research experience required

Description

We'll show you step-by-step how to perform a systematic review, from defining your topic through to submitting to peer-reviewed journals. Our students have amazing results, thanks to the innovative combination of1. focused how-to videos, 2. live demonstration sessions showing you what to do, and 3. research worksheets where it's your turn to complete each step. We also provide community access so you can reach out to course instructors directly and never feel stuck.You will also get access to academic writing training and instruction on how to use properly reference manager tools - foundational skills that will be invaluable to research now and into the future. The course builds on the Professors' experience at Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford, optimising the course to save time and avoid frustration. It has helped 100s of students publish papers and kickstart their academic careers, as well as researchers who just want to complete their literature review for their Master's or PhD thesis. This course is for anyone who wants to publish a high-impact paper or finish their thesis fast, and assumes zero background research knowledge or experience.It also employs open-access tools and resources, specifically designed to enable students even without university access or in a university in developing countries to publish without purchasing costly tools

Overview

Section 1: Week 0. Welcome to the course – Watch this before starting!

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Week 1: How to define a good (and fast) topic

Lecture 2 Convergence Method to Find a Winning Topic

Lecture 3 Live Demonstration Method: Convergence

Lecture 4 The PICO Method

Lecture 5 Finding Your Nearest Neighbour Paper

Section 3: Week 2: Defining your Keywords

Lecture 6 Week 2 Welcome Video

Lecture 7 Written Instructions

Lecture 8 Identify Your Keywords Using Your PICO

Lecture 9 Nearest Neighbour Match to Identify Keywords

Lecture 10 Live Demonstration Session: Nearest neighbour match method

Lecture 11 Piloting Your Search

Lecture 12 Dealing with Type 1 and Type 2 Errors

Lecture 13 Live Demonstration Session: Understanding Type 1 and Type 2 Errors

Lecture 14 Completing Week 2 worksheets: troubleshooting common challenges

Lecture 15 Setting your foundations Full Week Lecture

Section 4: Week 3: Setting your Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria

Lecture 16 Week 3: Welcome Video

Lecture 17 PRISMA and This Week's Steps

Lecture 18 Written Instructions

Lecture 19 How to Export from Pubmed to Zotero

Lecture 20 How to Export from Web of Science to Zotero

Lecture 21 How to Remove Duplicates Using Zotero

Lecture 22 Choosing your Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Lecture 23 How to Apply Your Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria During Screening & Eligibility

Lecture 24 How to Find and Retrieve PDFs Quickly Using Endnote

Lecture 25 Live Demonstration Session: What to do when there are too many studies? Applying

Lecture 26 Live Demonstration Session: Setting Clear Inclusion Criteria, with Rehab

Lecture 27 Applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, Full Lecture

Lecture 28 Writing Your Methods Section

Lecture 29 Live Demonstration Session: Writing Your Methods Section

Section 5: Week 4: Extracting and Analysing your data

Lecture 30 Extracting your data

Lecture 31 Analysing your data

Lecture 32 Live Demonstration Session analysis your data in excel

Lecture 33 Live demonstration session analysis systematic review data 2

Lecture 34 Structuring and writing your results section

Lecture 35 Live demonstration session structure and writing your results

Lecture 36 Live demonstration session refining the results section

Lecture 37 Full lecture analysing your data

Lecture 38 Optional Quality Assessment

Section 6: Week 5: Registering your study with PROSPERO

Lecture 39 Should you register with PROSPERO

Lecture 40 Live PROSPERO submission demonstration session

Section 7: Week 6: Writing up

Lecture 41 Conclusion, Introduction and the Final Write-Up

Lecture 42 Live Demonstration Session: Polishing your manuscript

Lecture 43 Formatting your manuscript with Mohammed

Lecture 44 Tips on Abstract & Titles

Section 8: Week 7: Submitting for publication

Lecture 45 The right way to submit your manuscript

Anyone who wants to establish expertise quickly and set a strong foundation for research,Master's or PhD students (or highly engaged undergraduates)