This templates helps you follow Raul Pacheco-Vega's (@raulpacheco) article skimming guide, implementing his PDF template in notion. The goal is to quickly skim through a scientific article to extract just enough information about the context of the paper, the phenomenon being studied and the contribution of the authors. This can then be easily compiled into a brief summary.
Abstract - Introduction - Conclusion analysis
Abstract
What do we know?
What don’t we know?
How does the author go about answering that question?
What do(es) the author(s) find?
What do we learn from this paper? What is the contribution?
Introduction
What do we know? (context, details of the case study, rationale for the research)
What don’t we know? (puzzle, research question, hypothesis)
How does the author go about answering that question? (methods, data sources, cases, timelines)
What do(es) the author(s) find? (results)
What do we learn from this paper? What is the contribution? (theoretical, empirical contribution)
Conclusion
What is the overall summary of this paper?
Which new methods, theory, data or combination thereof have been tested/examined/developed)?
How could this research be further expanded or developed?
What are the limitations of this research? What was not studied and why?
Article summary
(synthesized from above)
In their article, “________________”, ___________ (authors’ last names cited in Author Date format) _____________ (verb describing the overall summary of this paper – e.g. examines/undertakes an analysis of/explores) ______________ (case study). Applying _________ (method) on _________ (data), they find __________ (major findings).