There are many ways to read academic articles efficiently. Keep using different strategies until you find the best way to read papers.
Here are some helpful resources:
- Laubepin, Frederique. (2013). “How to read (and understand) a Social Science Journal Article.” Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- “Evaluating Information Sources: Reading Scholarly Articles.” University of South California.
- Parker, Jeffrey. (N/A). “Guide to Reading Economics Papers.” Reed College.
Top peer-reviewed economics journals include…
Once you are done with reading, now you need to conduct literature review!
Tell a Story; Don’t Enumerate.
Thomson, William. A guide for the young economist. MIT press, 2001.
In a literature review, you need to synthesize existing literature and walk through how the field has approached your research question with readers.
You can find more tips here:
- Dudenhefer, Paul (2009). “Literature Reviews” in A Guide to Writing in Economics, page 32.
- The Critical Lit Review Harvard Sociology .
- Saunders, Mark N.K. & Céline Rojon “On the attributes of a critical literature review” Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice Vol. 4, Iss. 2, 2011
- Arroyo Abad, L., & Khalifa, K. (2015). What Are Stylized Facts?. Journal Of Economic Methodology, 22(2), 143-156.