10: how to publish your research data? Flashcards
Academic success depends chiefly on
- Getting published
- Getting cited
- a key reason why work remains hidden is that it cannot be easily found or assessed by a reader who is undertaking a literature review. write informative and memorable title!!
H-index
Is defined as number of articles that each articles receives at least h citations.
HIRSCH has introduced the concept of h-index
Characteristics of h-index
- h-index increases over time
- h-index is based on citation counts
- Linear relationship between value of h-index and time.
advantages of h-index
- a single indicator provides the idea of scientific productivity
- h-index does not depend on total number of citations
- h-index can easily be obtained from WoS and Scopus.
Advantages of h-index
- H-index is time dependent
- h-index is size independent
Structure of the article
Abstract Introduction Body of article Results Discussion and conclusions Acknowledgements References Figures and Tables
Abstract
Critical section, because:
- it is read by many people than is the article
- it is the first impression
Purpose: to provide brief statements of purpose, methods, findings and conclusion of the study
Introduction
- what is the overall rationale and objective of the research?
- why this particular study is needed?
- it has to move from the very general to the specific
- identify the gap that the study is designed to fill
Method
- Who was studied, why, how and so on
- describes critical procedures and provides the rational for methodological decisions and for the sample
- participants are described here
- the operationalization of constructs should be presented here with their psychometric characteristics
- the rationale of the author’s decisions ought to be explicit
Results
- its important to convey why specific tests were selected, and how these tests serve the goals of the study
- The statistics are only tools in the service of the hypothesis
- From the standpoint of the reader, the results should make clear what the main hypotheses were, how the analyses provide appropriate test and what conclusions can be reached as a result.
Discussion
- consist of the conclusions and interpretations of the study
- includes:
> an overview of the major findings
> integration or relation of these findings to theory and prior research
> limitations and ambiguities and their implications for interpretation, and future directions.
What is peer review?
- review process for scientist by scientists
- purpose:
> to filter what is published as “science/research”
> to provide researchers with perspective - where is peer review used?
> scientific publications
> grant review
“The seven deadly sins”
- Data manipulation, falsification
- Duplicate manuscripts
- Redundant publication
- Plagiarism
- Author conflicts of interest
- Animal use concerns
- Human use concerns
What makes a good research paper?
- good science
- good writing
- publication in good journals
What consistutes good research?
- novel: new and not resembling formerly known or used
- mechanistic: testing a hypothesis, determining the fundamental processes involved in or responsible for an action, reaction, or other natural phenomena.
- Descriptive: describes how are things but does not test how things work - hypotheses are not tested.
Impact factors
Average numbers of times published papers are cited up to two years after publication
Immediacy index
Average number of times published papers are cited during year of publication.
A measure of how quickly the average articles in a journal get cited.
Contextualization
How well the paper fits into the context of other studies
