Workflow diagram
Create the first draft
- Figure out search terms and use them in PubMed, Google Scholar, and similar search engines
- Track date of searches and number of results
- Select articles of search results based on the title
- Track the number of selected articles
- Filter articles based on abstract, language, duplication, and other criteria of your choice
- Track selected articles, rejected articles, and reasons for rejection
- Read through articles in random order and isolate sentences of value and importance in logical groupings
- E.g. Epidemiology, Clinical findings, Imaging, Pathophysiology, Management
- Paraphrase grouped sentences
- Add important filler information about the topic from respective specialty textbooks
- E.g. definitions, standard symptoms, standard treatment protocols, etc
- Submit your article to journals of your choice until you receive a positive answer
- Make the necessary corrections and resubmit until the article is accepted
Tips
- You can create a draft abstract before writing the whole paper
- After the article selection, create a summary of all the abstracts you have found based on a standard abstract structure and base on the additional information you want to include
- You can submit this draft abstract to conferences as a poster
- You can create the poster from the abstract information
- Follow the Prisma checklist ( prisma-statement.org )