Apart from receiving academic degrees and promotions, what else should serve as motivation for conducting research and publishing them ?

For me personally is how to apply what I'd learned including the research process & tools to resolve / address certain research problems for knowledge contribution.

Family

Health and

Environment

These are welfare factors which bring the wholesomeness.

The recognition of students, colleagues, patients or clients and friends / family; they are sufficient together with personal self-realization, to continue with my vision, mission and life goals.

Learning and sharing of knowledge. I found many such great peoples here and from them i learn many things.

To keep a small spot in the research field before leaving the world forever.

To share the findings or outcome from the research conducted as well as creating the knowledge sharing culture..

Hello,

The Universal Body of Knowledge (U.B.K) is certainly a hypothetical reservoir whereby all scientific and epistemological artifacts, which have been disseminated by concerned scholars to satisfy a contributory role in supporting the universal goals of humanity, are stored . As such, worldly matters like awards and promotions are not the real motive behind research and academic endeavours. Rather, the promptitude of action for helping the ideals of mankind at a global level is a great stimulating force and motivational factor behind getting involved in the research process.

Best regards,

R. Biria

The recognition of being an astute researcher in your field. You meet someone for the first time and they are like "Oh! you are Anthony Baidoo? Wow! I've read so many of your publications. I'm particularly fascinated by the one on Engaging forest fringed communities in some selected small communities in Ghana on Non-Timber forest products (NTFPs) I think it's a great paper".

Moreover, as you conduct research and publish, you learn new issues in your area and contribute meaningfully to the current global discourse in that field.

"Realization of the conceived dream"

If you want to give back something to society, research is a very good opportunity.

Research immortal... Even if we will not be in this world we will be known for our research. This feeling is also motivating.

Contribution to society and recognition of students colleague is also motivating for research.

Following

1. Being able to answer questions that have beset the society for a long time

2. recognition by the world

I sincerely appreciate all your rich inputs to this discourse. I find them very refreshing. Thank you all !

Regards

Anthony Baidoo

I believe that the motivation for the investigation should be the curiosity to know, to know, to answer our questions. Curiosity is what drives research. Academic titles or recognitions may be a consequence, but never a motivation. It is not investigated to receive titles or recognition, if that is the motivation of the investigation, I doubt that this will make a quality investigation. Just as a good writer writes the story that motivates him, regardless of whether it is a success or not, a good researcher must investigate what he may be curious about, interested in, or that may be useful for the general interest, for the avence of science, regardless of whether that will give or not recognition.

William Shakespeare wasn't presented with a car for all his literature, but he's still immortal. I think the motivation for me is immortality in the world of research. Let's do more!

Apart from receiving academic degrees and promotions, what else should serve as motivation for conducting research and publishing them ?

For me personally is how to apply what I'd learned including the research process & tools to resolve / address certain research problems for knowledge contribution.

Personally, I always desire to share any knowledge I discover. I also love to come out with solutions to problems, probably from my field, where I can swim well. I engage in research and publications to:

1. To show the world new ways of solving the problems I studied and how I came by those solutions.

2. To expose my works to criticism and appreciation for professional and academic development. This would help me to become a better scholar and researcher.

the love for the people

The fundamental purpose of doing research is the improvement of the quality of life at our planet. Academic research is just the beginning that basically prepare future researcher to learn the research basics

Hi,

Finding out the real practical problems and addressing them with science-based research solutions followed by quality peer-reviewed publications looks to be the essence of anyone's science career.

Thanks!

— Mahesh

Keeping myself engaged in the work in which I am interested is the basic goal. I can not get any further academic degree or promotion. I have reached to the highest level since 11 years including 2 PhDs.

So it is my own satisfaction and happiness of students whom I guide make me happy .

Doing research is for solving scientific, social, economical, infrastructural problems facing the advancement of the society and make life easier and more comfortable to the people.

I sincerely appreciate all your rich inputs to this discourse. I find them very refreshing. Thank you all !

Regards

Anthony Baidoo

The motivation to accomplish and disseminate research is not only for scientific promotion but also for spreading knowledge and exchanging information around the world, as well as trying to solve the problems facing society to reach the best results and develop human life. .

Interesting. Following...

I think to serve with our research out put

to serve people

Desire to find something new

Desire to aware people about our research.

Desire to get appreciated by virtue of our work and research

So many

Regards

Partha

1. It gives intrinsic joy to the researcher and publisher because kola nut lasts long in the mouth of those who the value.

2. Learning is a continuous process, so it keeps one on the current page.

3. I some institutions these days, currency in publication (not later than 2years) is used as a yard stick for approving external examination for postgraduate students.

4. It help to disseminate knowledge for any knowledge un-shared in unbiggotten.

1. Sharing results and, in my case, possible applicable solutions that can be used by companies involved with the same issues. It is a MAJOR joy for me to know that other companies have adopted some of my ideas;

2. Getting feedback from other researchers, showing mistakes and points of improvement.

Everything else comes as a plus. My opinion.

Tell the World how it should be for human development at all spheres of human existence...

Recognition and Respect

In my case it is curiosity.

To help the world of knowledge, to help construct a better world, to offer my legacy... and doing all this with so much fun, because there is nothing better than knowing something new everyday!

Since ancient times, before the scientific complexities and certificates and publication, there were geniuses and researchers motivated by scientific curiosity and love of discovery and this is what science currently lacks, everything needs to be paid or certificate and promotion

I sincerely appreciate all your rich inputs to this discourse. I find them very refreshing. Thank you all !

Regards

Anthony Baidoo

Curiosity to know more...

Sheer curiosity and desire to uncover apparent contradictions.

The curiosity. Pursuing the good of humanity and the environment in which we live.

Dear collègues,

I think the key is a solitude with different problems, witch can be présent to students and discused into Labo.

The sharing ? The protection of results ?

To write for write? or

write to keep the memories to the chiliens?

No, it is the forme of scientific life - the rough drafts of thought history, our history

Regards,

MTT

A special love and passion deep inside !

learning and sharing culture, research is a very good opportunity in this perspective.

I actually have no academic degree, and don't publish in journals. What else? Research is a calling. If you have not heard the voice calling your name, you'd better abandon research, you'll find no genuine reward. You can contemplate other vocations, engineering is cool too, or teaching.

@ Claude Pierre Massé : " ... you'll find no genuine reward". How true !!! Worse: There is not even plenty of interest in what you are doing and offering your "colleagues" in an entirely altruistic way, i.e. for free, if it is not immediately of value for their careers. Sadly enough.

I want to duplicate my answer from the discussion https://www.researchgate.net/post/Money_shortage_for_young_scientists_and_future_University_professors_calls_into_question_the_future_of_higher_education because it seems to me it is relevant to this discussion.

"They say that history develops in a spiral. I agree with this saying concerning the concept of a scientist. Let's remember how and when the first scientists appeared. There was no such profession before and it finally appeared. Firstly, this profession was in those days a hobby, that is, people engaged in science out of curiosity and perhaps for entertainment. Secondly, for their curiosity these people did not receive any compensation in the form of a modern salary, there were no universities and scientific institutes at that time. Remember how the Theory of Probabilities was created - on personal letters between scientists, for example between Pascal and Fermat (https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal.pdf).

Nowadays, it seems like history repeats itself - many scientists find the strength to turn the scientist's profession into a hobby again and because of lack of resources, they are engaged in research, because this is the meaning of their life and otherwise they can not live. That is, I want to say that in any case science will develop only by the efforts of real scientists who will do science at their own expense as the meaning of their lives.

I want to sum up some of my personal observations:

1. Schools in the era of Globalization will be replaced for "Home Education" as the only guarantor of obtaining good knowledge from the parents of their own children

2. Education in the era of globalization in universities will be replaced by self-education from the Internet, as education in the era of globalization catastrophically falls

3. Science in the era of globalization will be created by real scientists for free (of their means), since this activity is their meaning of life

So, the story really repeats itself, everything comes to that state, from which everything all began once in the Renaissance in the Middle Ages".

Beside above mentioned, i just want to add it is for the self-satisfaction by getting the insight knowledge of the subject/area considered, I suppose !

I do agree with dr mahesh... curiosity to know more, contribute to the scienfic faternity and ultimately to solve the problems are the driving forces...

Regards

Partha

I do agree with dr mahesh... curiosity to know more, contribute to the scienfic faternity and ultimately to solve the problems are the driving forces...

Regards

Partha

It's my profession and it gives me real contentment, thus I carry out some research and publish it.