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Introduction for Reviewers


Writing a reviewer report | Springer — International Publisher

In this section, give the editor your recommendation for the manuscript and, more importantly, your reasons behind it. These usually have to do with the ...

Introduction to the Piecing Together Systematic Reviews Series

Speaker Information · Define the differences between narrative, scoping, mapping, umbrella, and systematic reviews. · Characterize different clients librarians ...

Introduction to Form and Style Review - Academic Guides

Introduction to the Form and Style Review. The Form and Style Review is conducted by Walden University's Form and Style editors and is one of the 7 Stages of ...

Introduction to systematic reviews - NC3Rs

It uses a systematic and structured approach, with a rigorous search of the published literature, to identify and appraise the results of existing studies. A ...

An Introduction to Literature Reviews - University of Vermont

More often, a literature review is found in the introductory section of a longer work (article, proposal, thesis) leading to and providing context for the ...

Instructions for peer reviewers - Cambridge University Press

Results/Analysis · Does the title suitably represent the article? · Does the abstract correctly embody the content of the article? · Does the introduction give ...

Introduction

Writing research papers and reviewing manuscripts and grants are essential activities in the scientific process. But authors and peer reviewers constantly face ...

Systematic and Systematic-like Reviews - Library Guides at Charles ...

Identifies and reviews published literature on a topic, which may be broad. Typically employs a narrative approach to reporting the review ...

Literature Reviews: Systematic, Scoping, Integrative - MGH Guides

Introduction to Literature Reviews. Characteristics of Review Types; Choosing ... Guidance for authors and peer reviewers on best practices in reporting for ...

Introduction to rapid reviews - Cochrane Training

Introduction to rapid reviews · This is a recording of the Cochrane Canada Webinar with David Moher, Adrienne Stevens, and Chantelle Garritty from the Ottawa ...

One Professor's Best Practices for Writing and Revising the ...

One Professor's Best Practices for Writing and Revising the Introduction to a Law Review Article · Tight as a drum. · Tension. · Consider a story.

Peer Reviews - ORCID Support

Introduction The Peer review section of your ORCID record is for information about your individual peer review contributions. The...

What are the types of review literature? - Intro to Review Literature

Use the basic structure of articles to speed research · Title - often long and technical. · Author Information - author name, affiliation (ex: ...

Introduction to peer reviews - Crossref

Why register peer reviews More of our members are keen to expose evidence of the integrity of the editorial process, such as peer review.

Peer review - Wikipedia

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). ... It functions as a form of self- ...

Rapid Reviews - Library Guides at James Cook University

Rapid Reviews. Introduction. What is a rapid ... A rapid review is conducted as an alternative to a systematic review when a review needs to be ...

The Literature Review – An Introduction to Research Methods in ...

The literature review involves an extensive study of research publications, books and other documents related to the defined problem. The study is important ...

Systematic Reviews: Introduction - Library Guides

A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesizes the evidence that meets pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer a given research ...

What is a literature review? - Introduction - Library Guides

Introduction. A literature review is a written work that: ... From these analyses, the writer then offers an overview of the current status of a ...

How I Peer Review Research Papers - César Soto Valero

The sentence X is cryptic. · The paragraph X is redundant. · The word X is unnecessary. · The concept X is used before being clearly introduced.


The Magic Island

Book by William Seabrook

The Magic Island is a book by American explorer and traveler William Seabrook. First published in 1929 by Harcourt, Brace & Company, The Magic Island is an account of Seabrook's experiences with Haitian Vodou in Haiti, and is considered the first popular English-language work to describe the concept of a zombie, defined by Seabrook as "a soulless human corpse, still dead, but taken from the grave and endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life—it is a dead body which is made to walk and act and move as if it were alive."