2. Literature review
Once you've found the right keywords & some main papers, try to find reviews.
- Literature reviews qualitatively review all the papers on a topic.
- Meta-analyses try to collect effects from multiple papers on the topic to give a quantitative answer.
- Textbooks are used to present the field the way experts want a beginner to learn about it.
It can be helpful to type a keyword with the words "review" or "meta-analysis" in Google Scholar.
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