systematic reviews; meta-analysis; social sciences
Abstract
This article aims to make a succinct, but thorough and rigorous presentation of the various stages of a systematic review of the literature, with a view to its application in the context of the social sciences. To this end, we propose an integration between the framework developed by Cooper (1982, 2010) and Cooper and Hedges (2009) and a set of contributions suggested by several other recent authors. The guidelines presented are open to immediate application by interested researchers.
