Dear All:
I am writing to the list to encourage you to consider submitting original manuscripts for publication in RSM. RSM is the official journal of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. It is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the development and dissemination of methods for designing, conducting, analysing, interpreting, reporting and applying systematic research synthesis such as systematic reviews, health technology assessments and guidelines.
It aims to facilitate the creation and exchange of knowledge about research synthesis methods that is of general interest or utility for the many fields and disciplines in which research synthesis is undertaken or used. The journal's scope includes all aspects of research synthesis methods irrespective of discipline or area of application.
Papers may address any aspect of research synthesis, including information retrieval aspects such as searching for studies to incorporate into evidence syntheses such as systematic reviews, health technology assessments and guidelines.
Papers on topics in fields such as the health and social sciences are welcome if they can also demonstrate relevance to general research synthesis. Papers reporting the results of a particular research synthesis are not, however, appropriate unless the focus is exclusively on an innovative or instructive methodological feature. To promote widespread dissemination that will enhance methodological innovation and synthesis practice, the articles in this journal must be accessible to a broad and interdisciplinary audience.
Papers should provide sufficient explanatory context for the issue addressed to make its significance apparent, avoid specialized jargon and references that are not defined or described for non-specialists, and discuss the implications and utility for practice of any results or conclusions.
Please do consider publishing in RSM. I would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the journal or about the suitability of a particular manuscript. Please feel free to contact me at Hannah.Rothstein@baruch.cuny.edu
The journal's website is located at:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1759-2887.
With best wishes
Hannah
Hannah R. Rothstein, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Research Synthesis Methods
Department of Management
Zicklin School of Business
Baruch College--CUNY
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New York, NY 10010
USA
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