Abstract
Researchers, including doctoral students, increasingly believe it is important to conduct systematic reviews – the ‘gold standard’ of reviewing (Boland et al., 2014). Systematic reviews (SRs) can be useful in delineating issues that are addressed by research students, though many areas within psychology may be inappropriate for systematic review as they lack an evidence base that meets SRs’ strict procedures. In medicine, from where the technique derives, one variable is frequently studied using repeated randomised controlled trial (RCT) designs – making SRs relatively easy. We argue that psychologists should use SRs, but with great care and only where appropriate.
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