Dear All,
How can I advise a friend who want t be a great researcher and publish his finding in high indexed journals? Kindly highlight your opinion.
1- Never give up,
2-work hard,
3-You should be a good writer( it is different from having a good English), some people even can't write a text well in mother language!
4-Search all available journals in your filed, see what is the scope? Who are editors and what are their interests?
5- Get help from international scholars in writing if you are an early- career researcher.
6- Try write review papers in your filed if you have enough experience/ or with help of some experts, usually journals that publish review papers have high impact, BTW, with writing review papers you get more citations, more citations help you to publish easier in future in high class journals.
Based on my own experiences, first of all you should study as much as papers concerning to your research area, after that you should provide enough data and proper analysis related to year research topic and case study. In addition, you should learn academic English writing. With take into consideration all of the above instruction, you can publish your manuscript in high quality journal.
Your experience is awesome. In addition, thank you for your great contribution, Ali Faghfouri.
1- Never give up,
2-work hard,
3-You should be a good writer( it is different from having a good English), some people even can't write a text well in mother language!
4-Search all available journals in your filed, see what is the scope? Who are editors and what are their interests?
5- Get help from international scholars in writing if you are an early- career researcher.
6- Try write review papers in your filed if you have enough experience/ or with help of some experts, usually journals that publish review papers have high impact, BTW, with writing review papers you get more citations, more citations help you to publish easier in future in high class journals.
you must have passion for research.Literature review and conclusions must be written very clearly.
Hard working and focusing on your field of study. You need a little chance, too.
Your great comment is highly commendable, Dr. Ahmadi. Best Regards,
In depth understanding of the concept in which you want to work. Further, a good control over the English language.
It requires hard work, high motivation, good writing skills, topic that attracts people, but on other hand we can not neglect factor of luck too.
Your wonderful comments, Emran Khoshrouye Ghiasi, Dr. Omid Mahian,
Dr. Mokkapati Sri Rama Murthy, Dr. Gholamreza Ahmadi,
Rajashekhar Choudhari and Muhammad Usman Sajid are greatly appreciated.
It’s involves a lot of work, a bit of luck or grace from above, a sense of novelty on your part, and at first your research focus should be narrow then you can expand from there.
I appreciate your wonderful explanation and share the same opinion that hard work and grace of God are key factors which can make one publish in high indexed journal. I appreciate your good articles in high indexed journal, Eric Oknowko
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I really appreciate your awesome contribution, Prof. Asadi. No wonder your findings on nanoparticles published on high indexed journal are clear evidence that you identified the knowledge gap and contributed appopriately. Your articles are quite interesting. Best Regards,
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Dear Prof.,
Am not a great researcher to post an answer to this question. However, I would like to share my experience till date.
It took 33 attempts to get my first article published.
It took 18 attempts to get my second article published.
It is currently the 4th attempt trying to get my third article published.
If am what I am, I must personally thank and be grateful to the following expertise who have helped me raise my standards directly and/or indirectly.
* Prof. P. K.Nagarajan
* Prof. Omid Mahian
* Prof. Mohamed Al-Nimr
* Prof. Rizalman Mamat
* Prof. S. Suresh
* Prof. Josua P. Meyer
* Prof. Adrian Bejan
* Prof. Serhiy Yarusevych
* Prof. Masoud Afrand
* Prof. Marjan Goodarzi
* Prof. Amin Asadi
Accumulating the lessons I learnt since last 4 years.
1. Must read the oldest and latest articles to understand the scenario of the domain under study.
2. Follow up with the works of 3 to 5 best researchers/scientists/professors in your field of work to know a strategy of writing an effective manuscript.
3. Various methodologies and tools used to define the concept of the research outcomes must be identified before drafting
4. Patience and perseverance to accept the criticisms from all the reviewers and hence to get the article corrected.
5. Collaborative research activities and discussions with various expertise across the globe.
6. Awaiting for the right opportunities to present yourself at various conferences to gain good contacts and updates in the field of work you choose.
7. Look out for publishing the articles in a High IF of 7 to fix the standards of your paper writing, so that you end up getting it published after several corrections.
8. Start sharing your hurdles with fellow researchers to gain a solution to push your work to the next stage.
9. Once you attain success, start guiding all those in dire need, so that you too would learn more through finding solutions for them.
Above all, the researcher needs a positive ambience to have a sharp and lucid thinking.
Hence,
a. maintain good rapport with colleagues
b. spend the best of time with family
c. allocate time for self healing through prayers or exercises
d. work hard without any expectations
I wish you the very best to achieve all that you dream.
With love, prayers and regards :)
1- get a good idea for a research at first
2- write the manuscript well ( need training )
3- write the methodology well
4- made a good statistical analysis
5- write a good discussion
6- never give up and trust your work
7- dont waste your time in small journals
8- work hard and again never give up this is the secret
Hello
Other friends gave good and effective suggestions. Another suggestion that is complementary to other solutions, and I've experienced it, is to get help from social networks. By building a group in a social network and managing it and its targeted activity, your interactions and communication with other researchers will increase.
Building a social network is very important as it can create many opportunities for collaborations. Besides, it can be useful to obtain a Ph.D position at another university (or abroad), a post-doctoral research position or even a lecturer position or professor position in the future, or to obtain some other benefits such as being invited to give a talk at another university or being part of the program committee of conferences and workshops.
With respect
There is no definite answer here. Great discoveries are the result of both mistakes and accidental events. Regards,
Depending on where in the development we start, it may look like this (and this is in some regards my own story)
1. Take as many courses as you can while being an undergraduate/graduate student. Ask questions, during class, and during brakes - be inquisitive. And not just to look interested (as some classmates of mine clearly did) - don't take short-cuts or flatter the lecturer/tutor/supervisor - that will back-fire.
2. Be lucky in your choice of master project. :-) Learn a hell of a lot from *how* your supervisor guides you through the formal and informal route through your development, including the writing of the thesis. On the side, read a very good writing guide - such as Nick Higham's book on mathematical writing (if that's your subject, otherwise find a good writing guide one in your field).
3. As a postgraduate, visit the equivalent of your department/group in order to get perspective. Write with your supervisor, but also enroll in projects with other PhD students in your field or at least related ones. You will notice that there are other possible ways to work, to write, and so on, AND you will - thanks to that - be able to learn what your style is, especially how you like to write and present your work.
4. Make sure that you meet many senior scientists during your early development, so that you have a flavour of who you might want be in the future. Don't be afraid to ask even the most senior colleagues for advice -- they are there partly for you, and they tend to enjoy visiting their past through the conversations they have with juniors.
5. Hopefully you will be mature enough at this stage to not be scared when you are "thrown out" from the nest to take care of yourself. By now you should have a network of contacts, that you rely on, and take from there.
Good Luck!
And by the way - don't pay attention when someone talks to you about impact factors of journals - it is of rather less importance. Check instead, if you need, with a human who knows your field to give more recent and experienced suggestions on where to send a particular
manuscript.
Collaborate with other scientists in your field of interest, try hard to learn from the existing literature what has been done then take the research a step further. Be persistent with submitting drafts to journals.
I recommended the following article
Article Ten Qualities of a Good Researcher
Best Regards Olusegun D. Samuel
For become a great researcher you should:
Working hard, working smart
To become a good researcher, another important skill is to spend enough time on your project. In other words, a successful researcher will work hard. For example, it is quite common that good researchers will work more than 10 hours a day. But of course, it is not just about working hard, but also about working “smart”, that is a researcher should spend each minute of his time to do something useful that will make him/her advance toward his goals. Thus, working hard should be done also with a good planning.
Having clear goals / being organized / having a good research plan
A researcher should also have clear goals. For a Ph.D or MSc student, this includes having a general goal of completing the thesis, but also some subgoals or milestones to attain his main goal. One should also try to set dates for achieving these goals. In particular, a student should also think about planning their work in terms of deadlines for conferences. It is not always easy to plan well. But it is a skill that one should try to develop. Finally, one should also choose his research topic(s) well to work on meaningful topics that will lead to making a good research contribution.
Having good writing skills
A young researcher should also try to improve his writing skills. This is very important for all researchers, because a researcher will have to write many publications during his career. Every minute that one spends on improving writing skills will pay off sooner or later.
Be motivated by something bigger than you i.e. draw Inspiration from the impossible. Never give up. Believe in your hardwork. Learn how to present your idea. Network with like minds.
IF of given journal is above all a bibliographic index, which has little to do with the scientific level of published works. But almost everyone believes it has. That is why works published in journals with a higher IF are treated better. Regards,
It is by determination to do good researches that have global impacts on the scientific world as well as patronizing good journals that do good reviews
High-indexed journals ........ Well, it is sometimes true, but often miracle. Regards,
Developing a manuscript that can be accepted for publication in high impact journal is more of an art than academic. You may have conducted very good research and have good results but if you have not developed the art of publishing in such journals, you cant get there. You have to be determined to break through by
i. being ready to accept the editorial and reviewers' comments and decisions in good faith and integrating them into the work.
ii. you have to be persistent. The fact that your work has been rejected in one journal should not discourage you from sending it to another journal.
iii. be humble because some reviewers will deliberately be rude to test your reaction.
iv. ask for help from a good mentor and be ready to get the help when it eventually comes.
v. understand the journal requirements.
vi. improve your writing skills
etc etc
There is no formula, but take every course that you can find in areas of your interest, as well as several courses "on the side" in order to widen your horizon. Try to talk with the best teachers/scientists about everything, in order to be inspired. Get high scores on exams, and be active in class. Be social with instructors, and try - if that is possible - to be enrolled in tutoring students - that's a good way to gain contacts.
My paper proposed a new way of thinking about the current hot issue in my discipline. I think, a creative (beyond original) idea and a well-written manuscript are the most important to publish an article in the top journal. Here, the top journal may include journals located in within 10% of each discipline. In my experience, the journal's reputation depends on the editor in chief's discerning eye. No matter how high impact journal is, the editor in chief may not have discernment. All but scholars already know how the journal increases its impact factor. And each journal has its own preference. Submitters may not know the points clearly. So it is important to submit an article to several journals located in within 10% of each discipline.
1-Be interested in your project subject, 2-Have clear purpose 3-Be owner of the purpose 4-Take enough time 5-and work on it with comprehensive attention
1. Keep an open mind. 2. Work very hard. 3. Be a bit lucky.
4. Listen to good advise, but not to bad ones. 5. Do not follow trends.
Well, there is a lot of good advices above. Hard to add something. Let me try this way.
Conduct a good experiments. Be precise, scrupulous and always honest. Once you get familiar with the phenomena under study you will soon realize that there is much more in this field than it was already published. Be a hard-worker, because good things happen in the lab usually after you exceed a certain amount of time spent there.
Once you have good results you need to publish them as soon as possible, but not earlier than you are able to explain them precisely and in a comprehensible way. Good paper requires good figures (you need to learn how to do such) and a lot of practice in order to develop good writing skills. Read the best papers in your field and ask colleagues for help. Every another manuscript you write will be better and better.
And - with a pinch of salt - it is much easier to better describe the good results than to make a poem about the weak ones.
Good luck!
Thanks P.s. Kayshap. I'll be happy if someone would benefit from our advices.
Totally agree with Pro. Omid Mahian . Thank you in advance for sharing your valuable information.
You can do the following:
1) Read through the literature. Understand the field you are working in. Be up to date to recent trends and innovation.
2) Look for something meaningful. A problem to solve. Something that can benefit others.
3) Stop working alone and start working with others. A good researcher is someone that can work in teams. Its important to expand your sight into the scientific community. You can brainstorm with your teams and perhaps co-author research articles.
4) Don't let your ego get in the way. Be always humble and ready to learn. Mistakes are ought to happen. When they do and others tell you about them. Be happy that they corrected you and strive to not repeat them.
5) It is preferable to focus on one point and go deep than to scatter your ideas through all the possible topics. Perhaps focus on a topic or point till you can't produce anymore work in it. Then move to the next one.
6) If you can help one person through your work then you've already achieved greatness. In my opinion, Science is wisdom shared.
7) High indexed journals care about level contribution, novelty and element of comparison. To achieve all of these you must first gain enough experience & have a proper problem statement.
It's simple dear friend:
1- You should have done an innovative work,
2- You should explain you results in a logical manner that can attract the reader to complete reading,
3- You should take care of your English while writing your paper.
Best of luck.
First of all: the more you read the more you can write: so literature survey is very important (cite good quality papers).
try to plan novel research work and get to details.
the style of writing is very important: avoid redundancy and tooth-fitting sentences. get to the point is short sentences.
The most important thing is to pick the right journal to publish your work. If you have funds available then check the Open-Access journals with high impact factor: reviewing is not as strict.
That is for the writing part, now the research part: pick and up-to-date subject, procedures and methodology.
last but not lease PUBLISH as SOON as POSSIBLE:
Good luck.
Thanks to all.
All the instructions are needed for me also. It will help me for growing myself as a good researcher. Thanks again.
Learn something every day; talk with scientists in every discipline - you may be filled with new ideas when you chat with someone new. If you haven't taken an academic writing course or two, then do so - you will learn how to get the logic and the scientific results across to the right audiences.
Read. Synthesise. Find the gaps in scholars' argument, and correct them. Learn to argue well!
Write well, and with discipline and a sharp pen (if you know what I mean); don't babble - write what's necessary, and not much more.
Make sure to describe the most necessary pre-history that you build on - and by all means tell the audience what is good and what is bad - with focus on the good, of course.
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