THE RESEARCH SEER'S RATIONALE

Article choice for performing the survey

The existing literature forms the backbone of a survey article. However, the choice on the articles used for survey has to be made as follows:

• ·  Choose prior articles with the exact research theme: By this notion, a researcher ensures whether he/ she has collected only the existing articles, which are more relevant and appropriate to his/ her research theme. A researcher failing to ensure this step will fail to acquire ample and accurate information on the research gaps or the current research findings on the considered research theme

• ·  Prioritize articles from refereed journals over the others: This notion implies that a researcher has to give more importance to articles from refereed journal publishers like, IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and many more. The reason is that the research articles from such journals have already undergone strict peer-review process to prove their truthfulness and research integrity. Hence, it is obvious that the researcher can gain truthful knowledge on the considered research theme

• ·  Choose articles from the current five years: This notion allows the researchers to be informed of the up-to-date issues in the considered research theme, enabling them to put forward a superior methodology for tackling an emerging issue

Disclosing potential future research directions

With article categorization and their analysis as smaller modules, a researcher can come to a conclusion of the research gaps available. Obviously, the possible ways to conduct future research become more evident and crystal clear to the researcher that providing a section for it in the survey article promotes further research and attracts readership.

Analysis on the existing datasets

Datasets are utmost required to perform the research. A survey article should include an analysis on the datasets being previously-used for the considered research theme, their collection procedures as primary or secondary and their availability as public or licensed. This section allows the researcher to determine, whether he/she needs an additional dataset or not for their research experimentation. Moreover, it allows the researcher to plan for the data procurement, if additional datasets are required.

Analysis on the performance measures

A survey article should have a separate section for the analysis on the currently-used performance measures for the considered research methodology. This analysis allows to jot down the performance measures that best-determines the methodological supremacy and at times, it allows to combine and frame a novel measure for performance assessment. 

Inclusion of a prospective system

A survey article should always include a prospective system for achieving the research notion. This is actually required for working towards a preset goal and improving it incessantly, without being got diverged from the considered research objective.

Hence, The Research Seer’s Rationale on “How to improve a survey article?” is: 

 “Categorize and Analyze Recent Research from Refereed Journals”