- Use relevant Data Base (Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus)
- Search using keywords -> while searching you will identify more relevant ones
- Ask your supervisor or more senior collages for some references to start with
- Find one paper/author that is close in relation to your work/interests and look at the cited literature
- When identifying proper literature – look for the journal and senior Author (but do not overestimate this information). Are the authors of the paper known in the field?
- For quick screening – read the abstract and look at the figures: are those useful?
- Try to find the “source article”, not citation of citation….
- Depending on the topic, but usually look for recent papers
- When you are redirected many times from one article to another to find proper information:
- This means that topic is difficult
- Ask (senior) collage for help
- Make new search to go out from the “loop”