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Methodspace welcomes insights and practical recommendations for research with and about Indigenous and culturally-diverse communities. These posts, interviews, and recorded webinars offer a wide range of perspectives from experienced researchers.

Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, co-researcher for “The impact of algorithmically driven recommendation systems on music consumption and production - a literature review,” offers insights about the literature review process.

What is the difference between a literature review and a state of the science review? See an article by Dr. Joan Dodgson.

In this Methodspace interview Dr. Joel Thurston and Dr. Cesar Montalvo tell us about how data science can be used for social good, and how their program for young scholars is cultivating a next generation of data scientists.

In this interview David Antons and Oliver Salge discuss the roles humans and machines can take to plan and conduct computational literature reviews.

In this interview Dr. Marc Anderson explains how and why to use citation context analysis to track impact of scholarly publications over time.

Ethnography is a widely used qualitative methodology, growing from roots in anthropology to acceptance in a wide range of disciplines.

Dr. Brian Fox explains why systematicity is important in literature reviews.

In the article “Theorizing Through Literature Reviews: The Miner-Prospector Continuum” Dermot Breslin and Caroline Gatrell pose an intriguing question: do you approach the literature review as a miner or as a prospector? They discuss options in an interview.

How do decide what literature you need for a review? See this post featuring an interview Martin Hiebl and related open-access article about sample selection.

Garima Sharma and Pratima (Tima) Bansal discuss ways to engage with managers, professionals, or practitioners to learn from the literature using a systematic review process.

In this interview Dr. Herman Aguinis and Dr. Ravi Ramani discuss the article they wrote with Dr. Nawaf Alabduljader, “Best-Practice Recommendations for Producers, Evaluators, and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews.”

Find tips for organizing and synthesizing methodological sources for your literature review.

In this interview Dr. Matthew Cronin discusses the article he wrote with Elizabeth George, “The Why and How of the Integrative Review.”

Professor Lesley Wood is experienced with engaged, participatory research. In this post she offers researchers advice about how to think about your role.

Making research design decisions is complicated. Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li, and Barbara Dennis push back against the divide between “qualitative” and “quantitative” methodological frameworks and methods.

Learn how computational social sciences help scholars to renew their research in several directions.

Online researchers face design challenges because they must also consider the implications of the technologies used in the study. By using an iterative, holistic approach, you can look inter-related dimensions of the design.

A critical step in planning and designing research entails reviewing literature to situate it in a research tradition.