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Attributes of good research
Research is a solitary task. Ultimately, all research projects involve many hours working alone. (Except that research is fundamentally social!)
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If there is no risk of failure, you are doing unoriginal research.
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If your research never upsets anyone, maybe you are not pushing hard enough?
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Backreaction: Paper Zapping
A nice quote from Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing, by Allen H. Renear and Carole L. Palmer (Science, 14 August 2009, p.829), on how scientists make use of the literature:
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s scientists search and browse, they are making queries and selecting information in much tighter iterations and with many different kinds of objectives in mind, almost as if they were playing a fast-paced video game
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Just as the aim of channel surfing is not to find a program to watch, the goal of literature surfing, is not to find an article to read, but rather to find, assess, and exploit a range of information by scanning portions of many articles
Open Access: just for articles!
Many funding agencies and some universities require researchers to publish their articles as open access. That is, research articles must be available to all, freely. The main argument in favor of these policies is social justice: why should publishers acquire the exclusive rights of work funded by students, governments and other benefactors?
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why should publishers acquire the exclusive rights of work funded by students, governments and other benefactors?
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Using the economic model as an argument is the stance of publishers resisting Open Access. To them, we answered: your financial well-being is not our concern.
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A recipe for interesting Computer Science research papers
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Basically, research papers are fitted to the needs of the current peer review system.
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Pick any given solution to a problem and add a twist to it.
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Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
During the course of a computer science research project (or even a DPhil) it is highly likely that a researcher will have to generate at least a couple of lines of code. Most researchers fall into a number of well-defined categories when it comes to programming. This handy guide for supervisors, other researchers or the plain bored helps you to identify some of the prime suspects...
How to read a research article- Purdue Research Connections
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- purpose of study/research question
- a hint as to research methods
- key results
I read it carefully and look for:
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- explanation of the problem the study addresses
- explanation of the larger context of the problem
- argument about the importance/need/relevance of studying the problem
- purpose of the study
- an overview of how the article is structured, and how the next section is organized
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Why do we still publish scientific papers?
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Right now, there are between one and two million articles being published in the ~24,000 scholarly journals. Even if you stayed close to your own field, way too many to read for a single person.
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After someone else has already done the job of ranking journals for other purposes, it's no surprise people only look at how many papers someone has in what journals, and rank them accordingly.
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