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Article Review Template
Article Review Template
-Identify the intended audience of the article, i.e. what background should reader
have; what background material one should be familiar to understand the article?
3. Brief Summary
Summarize the article very briefly, roughly as
proposed?
Paragraph 3: what evidence is put forward to support the solution provided (if article is of
empirical
type, highlight what kind of empirical study was conducted as part of the
evidence)
4. Results
Briefly summarize the important points (such as observations, conclusions, findings,
inferences) and
“take home points” in the article.
5. Contributions
An article makes a contribution by adding to the knowledge of researchers in a research
field. An article can make a contribution to research field in many ways. Does it provide a
new way to look at a problem? Does it bring together or “synthesize” several concepts in an
insightful way that has not been done before? Does it provide new results/ solutions or
identify new issues? Are the issues addressed introduced in a way that their
relevance/impact to practice is evident?
List the article’s original contribution. Discuss each contribution with due care.
6. Foundation
Identify the key pieces of prior research upon which article are built. If the article is
entirely new domain, “This article does not build upon any foundation research” may be
specified.
8. Analysis
State that what has changed since the article was written? How do its lessons, ideas and
theories still apply? To what extent has its issues been resolved?
9. General Critique
In this section one should state his/her opinions of how well the authors presented and
discussed the research results including interpretations in the article. It should contain
both positive and negative comments with due justification.
- Does it build upon the appropriate foundation (i.e., upon appropriate prior research)?
- Is the approach and execution is correct?
- Confidence with respect to the article’s results, and why?
- Does article throws upon exclusive new ideas?
- What are the article’s shortcomings and limitations?
- Are all important aspects and issues of its domain covered?
- Examine and comment the logic given in the article
The logical sequence of background information and the focus as the state-of the art
research should be examined.
Article should be checked upon clarity, theoretical background, latest literature & critical
review, scope for further research in the related area.
13. Relevance/Impact
Determine how much this article has relevance/Impact, do a citation analysis.
14. Questions
List three insightful questions of your own arising from this article that could really make one think.