From my experience, I have noticed that the attempt for the implementation of simultaneous research ideas, in a certain time, is usually unsuccessful, because of intense stress. Thus, I prefer to set priorities on the aforementioned implementation, achieving a satisfactory result.
As to me - in the situation described I usually choose the most important///interesting problem and am trying to concentrate on it. But subconsciously - all the problems are considered at the same time, and ironically - very often the solution of the problem which on priority list is not the main - comes first.
From my experience, I have noticed that the attempt for the implementation of simultaneous research ideas, in a certain time, is usually unsuccessful, because of intense stress. Thus, I prefer to set priorities on the aforementioned implementation, achieving a satisfactory result.
If you have multiple research ideas at the same time, which do you prefer to do these researches sequentially or in parallel?
Think it depends on the following factors:
Availability of resources or time e.g. if you don't have time to conduct the research in parallel, perhaps you can prioritize them in sequential order.
Research complexity - if some are less complex research, you can conduct first (i.e. low hanging fruits) or conduct them in parallel. For larger ones, you might want to work on one at a time etc.
Research perishability - if you think certain research ideas might be easily copied by other researchers or other researchers already started on similar research as yours, perhaps you might want to focus on those research first so that you are not "reinventing the wheel" when you conduct those research at a later time.
Research intention - if you are pursuing a PhD research, perhaps you want to focus on one research first or you might want to combine few smaller research ideas as a larger one for your PhD completion. If you intend to publish more articles, you might want to conduct those research sequentially i.e. research, article writing & publishing before embarking on next research etc.
Meeting university publishing quota / academic promotion - some universities might required their academicians / researchers to publish certain number of articles within certain period or before certain promotion is considered. If this is the case you might want to conduct few smaller research in parallel or focus first on a larger one & split them into few articles for publishing etc.
Perhaps you can also perform the following:
Pen down all your research ideas into a register / Excel spreadsheet etc. before you forget.
Perform thorough literature review so that you have better in depth understanding on your research ideas in which you might want to recalibrate / sanitize / consolidate those research ideas etc.
If you have organized & listed down those research ideas as different research projects - perhaps you want to apply Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) to rank / prioritize those research projects i.e. which one should start first, start last or conduct in parallel according to the CBA scoring.
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It depends on whether someone is working individually or in a team, and whether within a single research paradigm or e.g. two antagonistic? If individually, most likely the research field I will execute sequentially, simultaneously working on the report of the study. Working within a single research paradigm enables the researcher parallelism. Work in a team also allows for parallelism and to work in different paradigms.