Start Your Research with a Review Article

Someone reviewed recent academic literature for you, then wrote an article. A review article.

This is just a quick rule-of-thumb tutorial. But at least it's written by a PhD.

A fresh review article is a good place to start. You will know your field: what's known, what are considered open questions, what methods are popular. You save time by getting these ideas early, before you commit to your research plan.

Fresh Review, JUFO 1+

Review. A review article. It often has the word "review" in the title. In a review article, the author has done literature review and written a synthesis.

Published in esteemed, peer-reviewed journal. In practice, it should be JUFO 1, 2 or 3. It's the publication channel (journal) that's listed in JUFO, not the article. Articles with JUFO (julkaisufoorumi) rating of 1, 2 and 3 are considered good. https://jfp.csc.fi/jufoportal .

Notice the full name of the journal, e.g. "IEEE Transactions", not just "IEEE". "Cite" button shows the full name of the journal in Google Scholar. (If you need the citation, most universities use a variation of Harvard name-year system.)

Fresh. Newer than 2 years is preferred.

Scholar.google.com

Scholar search. One channel to find articles is Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/ncr .

Try searching with your subject + the word "review". There is also a filter for review articles.

Iterate and try multiple searches. (Do you think you have found a new area of science, and there is no existing research in your field? I regret to inform you that you're mistaken.)

Don't pay for articles, the link to a full text PDF is usually on the right in search results. For more free full-text articles, you can go to "Google Scholar: Hamburger menu: Settings: Library Links" and add your university (Haaga-Helia).