A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science

Literature review is an excruciating part in the process of research. It requires an analysis of published material on the topic of interest. Moreover, for a few researchers, it is challenging to extract a great number of required objectives, including problem identification, commonly known as '...

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Main Authors: Shah , Asadullah, Khowaza, Khamran, Shah, Abdul Salam
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2015
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/1/45250.pdf
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author Shah , Asadullah
Khowaza, Khamran
Shah, Abdul Salam
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Shah, Abdul Salam
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description Literature review is an excruciating part in the process of research. It requires an analysis of published material on the topic of interest. Moreover, for a few researchers, it is challenging to extract a great number of required objectives, including problem identification, commonly known as 'gap' in research. Searching and locating most appropriate literature is no more great deal in this era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), instead overloading of the literature is a major problem and the great challenge to be handled. Often postgraduate research students raise three questions to their peers and supervisors. First, how many articles are sufficient for a good for a good literature reviews? Second, how many past years literature will be enough to meet the required level for a good literature review? And third, what if, literature referred is published in the language other than researchers language? In this research paper a novel hypothetical model is proposed to answer first two questions; the number of articles required for a good and reasonable literature review and number of years backward the analysis of articles required for the same. Our results indicate that analysis of data partially support our hypothetical model and its assumptions.
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spelling iium-452502016-05-20T03:40:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/ A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science Shah , Asadullah Khowaza, Khamran Shah, Abdul Salam H Social Sciences (General) Literature review is an excruciating part in the process of research. It requires an analysis of published material on the topic of interest. Moreover, for a few researchers, it is challenging to extract a great number of required objectives, including problem identification, commonly known as 'gap' in research. Searching and locating most appropriate literature is no more great deal in this era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), instead overloading of the literature is a major problem and the great challenge to be handled. Often postgraduate research students raise three questions to their peers and supervisors. First, how many articles are sufficient for a good for a good literature reviews? Second, how many past years literature will be enough to meet the required level for a good literature review? And third, what if, literature referred is published in the language other than researchers language? In this research paper a novel hypothetical model is proposed to answer first two questions; the number of articles required for a good and reasonable literature review and number of years backward the analysis of articles required for the same. Our results indicate that analysis of data partially support our hypothetical model and its assumptions. 2015-03-02 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/1/45250.pdf Shah , Asadullah and Khowaza, Khamran and Shah, Abdul Salam (2015) A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science. In: The International Conference on Advanced Research in Business and Social Sciences 2015 (ICARBSS 2015), 2nd-3rd Sept. 2015, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur. http://www.icarbss.com
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Shah , Asadullah
Khowaza, Khamran
Shah, Abdul Salam
A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title_full A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title_fullStr A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title_full_unstemmed A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title_short A model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
title_sort model for handling overloading of literature review process for social science
topic H Social Sciences (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45250/1/45250.pdf