Information Systems
College of Business Administration
University of Missouri - St. Louis

IS7892 -- Reviewing Research

When reviewing a research paper, you should address each of the following issues:

1. What is the research question? What is the problem in the real world?

2. Who cares about the question, and why is it important?

3. What else has been done in the literature?

4. How will the authors address the issue?

5. Do the authors provide a theory as a basis for their approach to studying the issue?

6. How will they operationalize the variables in the study?

7. Are the variable definitions (both conceptual and operational) clear?

8. Does the methodology test the hypothesis as it is stated?

9. What are the results?

10. What do the results mean?

11. Do the results follow logically from the analysis?

12. Who cares about the results and why are they important?

13. What does this contribute to the literature?

14. How do these results help practitioners?

15. What is the next step in the research program? (What questions does this research suggest for future research)?
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