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Subject:

Re: Query about systematic reviews

From:

"David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

David P. Dillard

Date:

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:40:34 -0500

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Whether one has heard of a concept or not depends on where one has been 
looking.  The phrase has definitely been discussed in literature across 
disciplines.  Consider these database search results. Also remember 
discussion of the phrase does not mean that research is ever, often or 
always considered reliable by scholars, but the concept is discussed and 
with the amount of discussion of research in this context, it is likely 
that there are believers out there that think some research is reliable.


Google Scholar

About 16,800 results

http://tinyurl.com/hkwjqy4

The result is reliable research. Right? Wrong. ...

intervention procedures and reliable research data

Rapid and reliable research methods for practicing anthropologists

Desirable changes within the legal system will occur only if clear policy 
objectives are established, reliable research is conducted, and data about 
rape are brought forward.

[BOOK] Cults and new religious movements: a reader LL Dawson - 2003 - 
uni-marburg.de ... 5). In contrast to the study of other religious 
phenomena, Dawson regards a scientific response to issues raised in public 
above all by the media in connection with NRMs as the task for the 
researcher, out of a belief in letting the record of reliable research 
speak for itself.

The most reliable research information is derived from prospective 
longitudinal studies that follow same-age cohorts of children from birth, 
or an early age, into adolescence and adulthood.

There is little reliable research to support these claims, other than that 
which has shown body-cameras reduce untruthful complaints against police 
and can be a useful training tool.

While nurses and other health-care professionals must attend to 
understanding the cultural aspects of health and healing, there is little 
published valid and reliable research to assist with this, especially with 
respect to specific populations

[PDF] Reliable research: Towards experimental standards for computer 
science

[BOOK] Tough is not enough: Getting smart about youth crime: A review of 
research on what works to reduce offending by young people KL McLaren - 
2000 - ncjrs.gov ... at risk of offending. The most recent and reliable 
research on the issue is reviewed to identify the profiles of juveniles 
who should be selected for intervention to prevent the evolution of a 
criminal career.

Assessing ethics of trials in systematic reviews MA Weingarten, M Paul - 
BMJ: British Medical , 2004 - search.proquest.com ... 767 randomised 
controlled trials published during 1993-5 in the New England Journal of 
Medicine, Lancet, BMJ, and JAMA, trials of higher methodological quality 
were more likely to provide information about their ethical aspects; so it 
seems that more reliable research is also ...

The food industry needs reliable research methods for the evaluation of 
every new option before considering clinical trials.

Are children reliable reporters? B Herjanic, M Herjanic, F Brown, T Wheatt 
- Journal of Abnormal Child , 1975 - Springer ... We hope that through the 
use of the method described in the present study on a much larger sample, 
a set of criteria could be proposed in the future that would lead to more 
reliable research on psychiatric disorders and problems occurring in 
childhood. REFERENCES ...


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Google Books

23,100

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22reliable+research%22

Titles Like:

Soundings: rapid and reliable research methods for practicing ...

Management Research Methods

Best Research Practices

Marketing Research -

Researching Vocabulary: A Vocabulary Research Manual

The Craft of Research, Third Edition

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Summon

http://tinyurl.com/hbapakq

16,572 results

     Archival Material (6) Include Exclude
     Audio Recording (4) Include Exclude
     Book / eBook (5,325) Include Exclude
     Book Chapter (342) Include Exclude
     Book Review (268) Include Exclude
     Conference Proceeding (72) Include Exclude
     Dissertation/Thesis (1,336) Include Exclude
     Electronic Resource (2) Include Exclude
     Government Document (208) Include Exclude
     Journal / eJournal (1) Include Exclude
     Journal Article (3,777) Include Exclude
     Magazine Article (414) Include Exclude
     Manuscript (2) Include Exclude
     Newsletter (184) Include Exclude
     Newspaper Article (4,416) Include Exclude
     Paper (14) Include Exclude
     Patent (7) Include Exclude
     Publication (8) Include Exclude
     Reference (181) Include Exclude
     Report (58) Include Exclude
     Research Guide (19) Include Exclude
     Standard (1) Include Exclude
     Streaming Video (18) Include Exclude
     Technical Report (2) Include Exclude
     Trade Publication Article (90) Include Exclude
     Transcript (91) Include Exclude
     Web Resource (23) Include Exclude


Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2,750 results


============================

I just completed, yesterday, for a new research guide in progress, a 
rather extensive list of databases that have content about neuropsychology 
or employ a phrase starting with neuroscience followed by a psychological 
concept such as psychology or the phrase mental health.  The old way of 
doing this was to look for databases that probably had content on a topic 
or to use the standard lists created by others.

This complete post may be read at this web address


http://tinyurl.com/h5u8qlc

Here is a sampling of this content:



ABI/INFORM Complete

This database finds 3,553 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

Proquest Libguides ABI/INFORM

*

Academic OneFile

This database finds 92,123 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))


Content Types

          Academic Journals(92,123)
          Magazines(3,934)
          Books(103)
          News(49,878)
          Images(2)


*

Academic Search Complete


This database finds 144,203 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

Source Types

All Results
Academic Journals (141,049)
Book Reviews (1,400)
Magazines (1,382)
Newspapers (185)
Trade Publications (50)

*
Agricola [via EbscoHost]

This database finds 260 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

*

America: History & Life with Full Text


This database finds 91 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))


*

Anthropology Plus [via EbscoHost]

This database finds 86 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

*

ArchiveGrid
Contains archival collections held by libraries, museums, historical 
societies.

This database finds 210 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

*

Art & Architecture Source (formerly Art Source)

This database finds 289 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))


*

================================================


On various academic discussion groups, I have seen professors and "authors 
to be" ask members of a list for publication citations on a topic they 
plan to research and publish about. How thorough and representative would 
the literature review be resulting from such a method of finding sources?

I debated whether to check some of the databases in the neuropsychology 
list and found sources for the Neuropsychology search where I was sure 
there would be none.  Also neuropsychology found in an odd place could be 
a source of someones paper, using the citations found in that odd source.

Consider this example



Water Resources Abstracts

This database finds 27 sources for a search of neuropsychology OR 
neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

This is one I was not going to check

The general theme in these 27 results has to do with brain damage 
resulting from poisoned water.  I have a research guide about Flint 
Michigan in this regard, but what content is added to someones research
on poisoned water with these 27 sources?  Letting the researcher know to 
look there is a very important part of information sharing. It also can 
get the database higher user counts adding to the justification for 
keeping the database at the subscribing institution.

So what is the point of all of this?  I go all the way back to the age of 
card catalogs and print indexes to subject fields. It was murder trying to 
find sources on a complex topic in that era.

Now in moments, one can find oceans of sources on many topics in seconds, 
once a, pardon me for this one, reliable Boolean search strategy is 
devised, on many topics such as "reliable research" OR on neuropsychology 
OR neuropsychological OR (neuroscience AND (psychology OR psychological OR 
"mental health" OR "mental illness" OR "mentally ill"))

I have many examples of search strategies with results with this link

"google domain limited web search" AND listserv

http://tinyurl.com/heq8ego


By the way, this link is a breakthrough for me as I just found a way to 
show lots of search examples without Google providing links to mostly my 
research guides which makes finding the examples a treasure hunt.

The point of this excursion is that we are no longer in the age of the 
card catalog and print index, one cannot find either in a major library as 
a core source meriting major use.  I even advise against using online 
catalogs as an authority for what a library holds on a specific topic as 
Google Books, Summon, Worldcat and other discovery services such as Summon 
do far far better.  The online catalog is based on the print card catalog.
How much can one learn about the content of a book from an augmented three 
by five card?

We are also no longer in an age wherein a scholars authority based on 
personal experience is a valid or useful way of conducting reliable 
research.  Assertions based on this type of authority may be defeated 
quickly by database searches and learning how to use these tools 
effectively is a hobby researchers are highly advised to take up.


DATABASE SEARCHING: Search Technique Resources and Finding Tools

http://guides.temple.edu/databases


I have seen impossible topics melt into a piece of cake using these tools, 
but there is a learning curve to use them effectively and time spent 
learning their methods, which differ from system to system will help pile 
larger portions of reliable research and evidence based content into the 
underlying literature reviews of research projects and publications.


.

.



Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[log in to unmask]
http://workface.com/e/daviddillard

Net-Gold
https://groups.io/g/Net-Gold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html
https://groups.io/org/groupsio/Net-Gold/archives
http://net-gold.3172864.n2.nabble.com/

Temple University and Google Sites Research Guides
AND Discussion Group Directory
http://tinyurl.com/ngda2hk

OR

https://sites.google.com/site/researchguidesonsites/

FAKE NEWS
https://sites.google.com/site/fakenewsresearchguide/

RESEARCH PAPER WRITING
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers

EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-guide

INTERNSHIPS
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-internships

HOSPITALITY
http://guides.temple.edu/hospitality-guide

DISABILITIES AND EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=134557

INDOOR GARDENING
https://groups.io/g/indoor-gardening

Educator-Gold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/

K12ADMINLIFE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/

PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES INCLUDING EBOLA
http://guides.temple.edu/public-health-guide

STATISTICS SOURCES RESEARCH GUIDE
http://guides.temple.edu/statistics-sources

Social Work and Social Issues Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/social-work

Tourism Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/Tourism

Digital Scholarship Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/DigitalScholarship/threads
https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/digital-scholarship/info
https://digitalscholarshipandscholarlypublication.wordpress.com/


Copyright Research Guide
Copyright, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism Sources
http://guides.temple.edu/copyright-plagiarism

Fair Use
http://guides.temple.edu/fair-use

Blog
https://educatorgold.wordpress.com/

Articles by David Dillard
https://sites.google.com/site/daviddillardsarticles/

Information Literacy (Russell Conwell Guide)
http://tinyurl.com/78a4shn

Twitter: davidpdillard

Temple University Site Map
https://sites.google.com/site/templeunivsitemap/home

Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
David P. Dillard
http://tinyurl.com/o4pn4o9

Rail Transportation
https://groups.io/org/groupsio/RailTransportation

INDOOR GARDENING
Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/

SPORT-MED
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html

HEALTH DIET FITNESS RECREATION SPORTS TOURISM
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/healthrecsport/info
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html


On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Ahmed Abou-Setta wrote:

> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve never heard of any research type being labelled as reliable. A more accurate description is based on ‘study
> quality’ and ‘risk of bias’. Any study design may have a range of either (low to high study quality and/or low to
> high risk of bias). Another description is the evidence strength or quality resulting for said study design (at least
> using the GRADE methodology). I won’t go into details about each of these as there are lot of available literature on
> each topic and when and where each is appropriate to evaluate.
> 
>  
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
>  
> 
> Ahmed
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Brassey
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 5:10 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Query about systematic reviews
> 
>  
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm helping a student with a piece of work and he described systematic reviews as being reliable.  I'm troubled by
> this on a number of fronts:
> 
>  
>
>  *  Is there any evidence that they are reliable?
>  *  If they are reliable, in relation to what?  A reliable car might not break down very often, so that outcome is
>     clear.  But I'm not sure what it means in relation to SRs
>  *  If SRs aren't properly described as 'reliable' what are they best described as?
> 
>  
> 
> An underpinning assumption of SRs appears to be that if you identify all the published trials that bestows upon the
> SR a special status.  This appears to be faith-based, not evidence-based.  
> 
>  
> 
> Any help out there?
> 
>  
> 
> Best wishes
> 
>  
> 
> jon
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> Jon Brassey
> 
> Director, Trip Database
> 
> Honorary Fellow at CEBM, University of Oxford
> 
> Creator, Rapid-Reviews.info
> 
>  
> 
> 
>

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