CERI Review Form
This form allows you to organize CERI reviews (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Implications) for research articles. This form will be connected to a spreadsheet that you can use to organize your notes. If you would like to make a copy of this template for your own research notes, please contact Adam Burgasser (aburgasser@gmail.com) to obtain a copy of this form.
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Section 1: Paper information
Enter the bibliographic data for your paper
Paper Title:
e.g., Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1
Bibliographic Citation
e.g., Gillon, et al. (2017), Nature 542, 456
Topic Keywords/Tags
from paper or Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: https://bit.ly/3jssJy2
Part 2: CERI Elements
Claim
A plain language, declarative answer to a scientific question that defines the specific relationship between variables. What is the main claim or hypothesis this paper is stating? Are there additional, secondary claims being made? Usually found in the abstract and in good papers the title
Evidence
What are the data, measurements, observations, models, computations, etc. that the authors use to support their claim? Be specific. Usually found in the abstract and the Methods section of the paper.
Reasoning
What is the theory and/or prior research that directly links the evidence to the claim, and provides the logical basis or pathway for their argument? This could be a particular analysis methodology, or how authors were able to rule out other interpretations. Usually found in the Analysis section of the paper.
Implications
How is this result significant beyond the immediate findings? What has been learned? What further work is needed? Usually found in the Discussion section of the paper and possibly in the abstract.
Context
What is the scientific context of this work? What broader questions or problems are answered by or are relevant to this work? Usually found in the Introductory/Context section of the paper. Define any jargon in this section.
Part 2: Analysis & Synthesis
Evaluate this article's quality in comparison to other papers, and specific comparison to a similar paper
Analysis
Evaluate the paper's quality and significance. Is the reasoning robust? Are there relevant data that are missing? Are there assumptions that need to be revisited? How important is this topic? What is its citation count or citation rate (citations/year), and how does this compare to similar papers in this area?
Relevance
How is this article specifically relevant to your research?
Compare/Contrast
Compare/contrast this article with another relevant article. Using either the Venn diagram or table below, list 3-4 unique elements in this paper, 3-4 unique elements in the other paper, and 3-4 overlapping elements. Restrict this comparison to claims, evidence, reasoning, and implications.
Comparison Paper
e.g., Gillon, et al. (2017), Nature 542, 456
Unique to review paper
Unique to comparison paper
Common to both papers
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