Why a Systematic Review Should Be Your First Paper (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: So many students come to me and say, hey, prof, I want to publish a paper. If I could get my paper published in high impact journals, you know, that's going to crack open academic jobs, postdocs, fellowships, and just get me a lot of respect in my field. But then they tell me what they're trying to do. And it's like, they've jumped out way far ahead and they're doing something super sophisticated when they haven't mastered the basics. Here's where you need to start and invest in yourself so that you will be that top performing researcher in the future. Do a systematic review. Systematic review is different from a literature review because you're going to do it in a reproducible way. This should be, and I do this with all my students over the years at Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford, your first publication. It's going to spot gaps in the field and it's going to help you identify low hanging fruit. So not only is a systematic review going to give you your first paper, but it's going to give you a research agenda going forward to get on that proverbial fast track.