What is the specific research question the authors seek to answer?
Relevance: Have the authors demonstrated a need to answer this question? If they have, have they demonstrated that need in terms of the shortcomings of extant literature?
Operationalization: How have the authors operationalized their concepts—that is, how have they measured the ideas they discuss?
Method: What method do the authors use to test their hypothesis? Do they use a survey, an experiment, ethnographic interviewing, collection of extant data, etc.?
Justification of Method How do the authors justify their method?
Data: What kind of data do the authors collect, and how do they analyze that data?
Conclusions What are the authors’ main findings?