Author: Elle Covington
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One of the prevailing concepts within information science is the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy that grew out of a 1989 paper by Ackoff titled From Data to Wisdom. There are legitimate critiques of this framework. No framework is perfect. However, it…
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Three phases of a systematic search
As implied by the name, advanced review methodologies grew out of the more traditional literature review. Over the years, it became clear that for certain disciplines and certain research topics, the reliability and credibility of the findings of a review…
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Introduction to Advanced Reviews
Systematic reviews, evidence syntheses, meta-analyses. These are all terms for research methodologies that are growing in popularity in many disciplines as the push for evidence-based practice—and transparency, reproducibility, and bias-reduction in research more generally—becomes ever greater. But what are these…