While searching in research databases:
- First narrow your search to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) articles
- Use the Research Article limiting option if the research database provides it

- Use the appropriate official Subjects if the research database provides that option

- When a research database does not have these options, add the following search string to your current search:
research OR study OR data OR empirical OR quantitative OR qualitative OR "mixed methods"
NOTE: This does not guarantee that all articles in the results list will be empirical research articles. However, it provides a higher probability that they will be.
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