I wonder, how should we measure a successful researcher? Is it with the number of citations of scholarly works? Is is about the number of awards received? Or is it about the knowledge that one has contributed to the betterment of society through knowledge generation?
What are you thoughts?
Publications in peer reviewed journals, amount of external grant funds, impact factor for journals in which published.
Publications in peer reviewed journals, amount of external grant funds, impact factor for journals in which published.
Beside publications, fundings, and impact factor, in my opinion, the research benefit(s) to the community is the most important measure of success.
قد تعود الى سيرته الذاتية لتتعرف على ماقدمه من بحوث ولكن القياس الحقيقي هي عند متابعتك لأصداء الناس الاخرين من خلال لاستشهاد بإنجازاته والافتخار بعزيمته هنا تتمكن من معرفة مدى درنجاه فالناس هم من يحكمون على ذلك من خلال ماقدمه من فوائد للمجتمع
A successful researcher is one who contributes in a way to improve our understanding of a topic. If a person has done this, then they have succeeded. Regarding a total measure, I'm a large fan of industrial ecology and EROI. The more our work is likely to improve society's EROI, the more successful the research is.
When/after we died, people will just remember our research evidence and its impact. Such an achievement is not measured by "Publications in peer reviewed journals, amount of external grant funds, impact factor for journals in which published" only. There are so many scholars who are forgotten from the academia as soon as they retire. Their research outputs and achievements are commonly amazing (in terms of quantity). However, they are soon forgotten. We need to purse a new knowldege generation rather than to focus on just numerical accumulations.
Zare, R. N. (2012). Research Impact. CURRENT SCIENCE, 102(1), pp. 9.
Article Responsiveness of academics to e-mails: India versus the West
The obsession with being number one: https://web.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/articles/currentscience2017.pdf
The successful of the researcher can probably be measured by his/her contributions in successfully
(i). sharing the knowledge with graduate students and postdoctoral fellow, and contributing to expand the research and improve our understanding of a specific research topic
(ii). publishing good papers in the field of his/her research;
(iii). supervising the graduate students and postdoc,
(iv). obtaining NSF research findings and generating positions for the postdoct,
(v). granting patent and commercializing it to generate the revenue,
(vi). selecting to become the editor of the research journal in the field of his/her research area,
(vii). volunteering at NSF board of research director,
(viii). obtaining a tenure position, and maintining it until he/she is retired,
(ix). broadening network,
(x). standing out amongst his/her peers,
(xi). reviewer or editor boards of the reputable journals related to his/her expertise, and
(xii) appealing to members of the faculty and/or national lab.
Providing service to a community, particularly through joining a board of directors for a nonprofit organization, is one of the key successfully securing tenure methods For the researchers. Cody (2015) described that there are approximately 45,500 PhDs employed by the nonprofit sector in the United States [Cody, J. (2015). “Why PhDs Shouldn’t Overlook a Career With a Nonprofit Organization.” Retrieved from https://cheekyscientist.com/why-phds-shouldnt-overlook-a-career-with-a-nonprofit-organization/]. Board members provide expertise and insight that support a variety of initiatives while also contributing positively to their careers.
Muhammad Adnan Truly, the benefit of the research work to the community is one ultimate success measure.
Dennis Mazur The ethical conduct of the researcher should also be considered. This makes the academic community trust the works of the researcher.
The successful researcher is the one who provides new and useful information in the field of his work.
Contributions to the human being need in life. For example, a Nobel laureate, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (1910-1994),
(i). was a leading biochemist and a pioneer in the field of protein crystallography;
(ii). received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, the first British woman to be so honoured.
Additionally, her life’s work determined the molecules in structures including
(i). penicillin,
(ii). vitamin B12 and
(iii). insulin.
A successful researcher is a person who can get money, glory and pleasure in the amount and in the proportion she\he wishes from the research work he\he performs.
A successful researcher is able to identify the problem and use the scientific method in soliving it, and get results, then publish his work.
Meet the successful women researcher behind the Periodic Table -
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00287-7
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Researchers provided
- sharing the knowledge,
- contributing and improving the other researchers knowledge,
- publishing high-quality papers and becoming the major reference in the field of his/her research;
- Successfuly supervising the graduate students and postdoct,
- obtaining NSF research findings and generating positions for the graduate students and postdoct,
- granting patent and commercializing it to generate the revenue,
- selecting to become the editor of the research journal in the field of his/her research area,
- volunteering at NSF board of research director,
- obtaining a tenure position, and maintining it until he/she is retired,
- broadening network,
- standing out amongst his/her peers,
- volunteering to become reviewer or editor boards of the reputable journals related to his/her expertise, and
- appealing to members of the faculty and/or national lab.
Although the discovery of the structure of DNA was attributed to Watson and Crick, a keynote player in helping them discover this structure was a scientist by the name of Rosalind Franklin. Rosalind Franklin, along with Francis Wilkins, worked on DNA applying X-ray crystallography to find out its structural properties.
Further details of the successful of researcher, Rosalind Franklin to human being can be read at the following link—
http://www.dnaftb.org/19/bio-3.html
One of the greatest acknowledgement of the physicist/Crytallographer, Hugo M. rietveld ’s work was his receipt of the 1995 Aminoff Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Additionally, beyond the world - in December 2012 he was thrilled to receive an e-mail from David Blake of the CheMin team of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, who wrote saying that *he did not think they could have convinced NASA to send an X-ray powder diffractometer to Mars without the Rietveld Method*.
Thirdly, one of his seminal paper on the Rieveld Method is the most cited papers on neutron powder diffraction published by Journal of Applied Crystallography.
SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO STABILIZE FUSION REACTIONS
The reseresearchers described that the technique could prove useful for an experimental European reactor scheduled to go online in 2025
(https://futurism.com/the-byte/fusion-reactions-stabilize?fbclid=IwAR1u03lD8OHVBKtoB0UvCjWLQVLVweu77BL9IzwZjKEeqXEK7LGYZL7G7qs).
More information:
A. H. Reiman et al, Suppression of Tearing Modes by Radio Frequency Current Condensation, Physical Review Letters (2018). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.225001
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