Identify and Qualify Target Sources
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The easiest names to find may not answer the research question. Applying the brief's rules protects the study population, while provenance and credibility notes show what each source can establish. Verifying a responsible contact prevents an organization name from being mistaken for complete coverage. Explicit prioritization directs limited time toward the most useful subjects.
Proficiency Level
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Measurable Behaviors
Behaviors are optimized to be directly observable for evidence-based skill tracking.
Compile candidate sources that match the brief's criteria
Compiles candidates that meet the written inclusion rules and records the source that identified each subject.
Identify the responsible contact for each subject
Finds a named responsible person and verifies their role rather than stopping at an organization or shared inbox.
Map the full landscape and document how to extend it
Documents discovery paths that let teammates add adjacent, on-criteria subjects to the source map.
Prioritize highest-value targets when coverage time is limited
Ranks subjects by value to the brief and records why lower-priority coverage was deferred.
Rate source credibility and prefer primary over secondary sources
Prefers primary evidence, notes credibility, and marks claims that lack corroboration.
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Mastering Research Source Qualification
Every included subject has a qualification basis, identifying source, and confirmed owner when applicable. Deferred work has a reason, and another researcher can extend the source map with on-criteria subjects using the documented discovery method.