I have heard people who brag about the amount of data they gathered in their research in a short time. My wise supervisor always advised me, "You have not done anything until you publish it in a reputable journal." 

Although flawed, today research output is measured through the number of publication, impact factor of the journal and the number of citations. Hence, with the current atmosphere, accomplishing scientific research quickly and efficiently means publishing in reputable journals regularly and being cited often.  

In my short career as a researcher, I have realized research efficiency and effectiveness requires three things:

UPDATE: It has been almost a year since I gave this response and my thoughts on the issue have evolved. The basic assumption in my response was scientific productivity is measured by number of research publications. I think that might not be correct.

The following articles have helped me change my views on scientific productivity:

Workers activity engaged in their respective field of research will always find time to write and read research papers of their interest. It is one kind of addiction !  Authors should not publish papers till they are fully satisfied with their output.

I have heard people who brag about the amount of data they gathered in their research in a short time. My wise supervisor always advised me, "You have not done anything until you publish it in a reputable journal." 

Although flawed, today research output is measured through the number of publication, impact factor of the journal and the number of citations. Hence, with the current atmosphere, accomplishing scientific research quickly and efficiently means publishing in reputable journals regularly and being cited often.  

In my short career as a researcher, I have realized research efficiency and effectiveness requires three things:

UPDATE: It has been almost a year since I gave this response and my thoughts on the issue have evolved. The basic assumption in my response was scientific productivity is measured by number of research publications. I think that might not be correct.

The following articles have helped me change my views on scientific productivity:

Very interesting advice thank you, so much dear Dr.Edmond Sanganyado

You are alright Dear Dr.Subir Bandyopadhyay

Thank you for your valued contribution 

A. To be efficient in your searching:

1. Don't use inferior databases of research papers. Use the best first.

2. Don't download every paper, but don't be scared to download something that might be useful.

3. Use Google Scholar to find the profitable papers quickly.

3. Use Qiqqa Sniffer to avoid tedious typing-in of bibliographic detail.

B. To be efficient in your reading:

1. Don't read printed journals, they make it difficult to annotate and to retrieve your annotations.

2. Don't read every paper you have downloaded. Use Qiqqa's home screen to recommend what to read next.

4. Don't read every section of recommended papers. Use Qiqqa's Expedition to extract themes that are present in your papers. Work theme by theme (subquestion by subquestion).

C. To be efficient in your studying:

1. Don't make highlights, annotations, and comments that you cannot quickly gather together into interim reports. Use Qiqqa InCite.

D. To be efficient in other phases of your research:

1. Don't be parochial. Use ResearchGate as a research tool to widen your contacts.

E. To be efficient in your writing:

1. Don't use paper copies of notes. Use your interim reports previously generated. Save these as PDFs and make a new library in Qiqqa of your own writings.

2. Work visually. Use Qiqqa Brainstorm to show linkages.

http://www.qiqqa.com/Register/70557

I am very happy with these tips that will provide my graduate students with a lot of effort, money and time

Thank you for sharing your valuable experience with us.

Accept my respect, Dear Prof.Dr.Ian Kennedy

Hello 

I agree with Edmond Sanganyado. Very precise answer dear colleague. 

Liqaa 

Me too Dear Dr. Liqaa Habeb,

Happy and Good Morning for you Dea Colleague

Dear Salam,

The best way to accomplish a fast and efficient research topic is to enhance an existing research finding that does not require  unavailable resources such as large budget, experiments for long time, thorough literature review and many other difficult tasks. It is also important to create a consortium of co-authors who have experience in the selected topic of research.

Best regards

While I agree with the contributions made  so far, I wish to state categorically that to accomplish scientific research quickly and efficiently, discipline and diligence are the most important elements in addition with established points from Prof.Ian kennedy and Edmond. Useful scientific research outcome is derived on the basis of discipline and diligence. Without these, publication with Impact factor/reputable journals remains an illusion.

I am also thinking about this issue Dear Colleague Dr.Kennedy Chinedu Okafor.

Thank you with my respect

There is no quick way to accomplish good scientific work. Research  like learning language need to build up vocabulary learning grammar, practice language; oral and writing that all need time. To accomplish good work, you need good foundation to learn the basics.  Be self learner and look around  to learn also from others and practice. Deal with good journals, avoid fake ones, tolerate good editors and reviewers, do not be angry when you work is rejected, try again and learn from mistakes.

Best regards

Aly R Abdel-Moemin

The best way to accomplish scientific research quickly and efficiently is to automate the scientific research using AI. I have mentioned this point in my project or paper on Science of Research. In the future, the researchers needs not write research papers any more.  You only provide an idea or a topic to the research automated machine. Then, in 0.5 second, an original research paper has been produced for you freely. This speed is similar to what Google search. The produced paper can be submitted to top journal and then published automatically, because the journal reviewers could not find any flaws from it, and, nevertheless,  consider it original. 

This is also the topic of hard AI problems. For detail see my 10 hard problems in AI here. 

Prof. Dr Zhaohao Sun

2017-10-03 

Using AI is good but researchers should not become dependent on it. Many of the school children of today even need to verify with a calculator that 2+2=4.

Well, I think the very first step that should be taken toward a timetabled research or scientific publication is to apply the principles of project management. Each research is a project that has a start, middle, and end points and aiming for predefined goals using an early stage planning and strategies. Cost, regarding both financial and time aspects, is estimated at the planning stage for a project. Besides, motivation factors should be existed and remembered along with all the steps of doing research. A researcher's efforts will undoubtedly be stimulated if he/she is acutely aware of the research value, importance, and contribution to the scientific field, industry, and the whole world.  

Thank you Dear Dr.Aly R Abdel-Moemin

Dear Dr.Zhaohao Sun, It is a good idea but we will lose our writing, reading, thinking, and analyzing skills when we use it

Thank you Dr

of course, dear Pro.Dr.Subir Bandyopadhyay 

thank you  

I think that researchers should work hard, be realistic in what can be achieved in a certain time and have an excellent overview what has been done in the field already. Depending on the field, subject and topic they will require other tools as well, but with the ones I mentioned above nothing will go....

Plan, Plan, Plan.

Thanks. We are learning and following.

Plan properly, follow time management, and perform consistently.

The best way to accomplish good and fast research results is to have good background in science specifically in the area of your research. In addition, it is better not to start from zero by either enhancing an existing research outcome or continuing an unfinished one. Most of all collaboration with other scientists is very important.

Typically, you'll want to create a basic thesis statement for your final report. This is what you ultimately want your research to prove.

Collaborate with other scholars who share your interest.

Very useful discussion, many thanks.

I agree with Amir WA. Al-Khafaji but it's not easy to find a scholar who wants to collaborate.

Actually good research exercise is not hurry up activity, every stage involved should testify scientifically in order to draw real and contemporary findings . Every new beginner should take more time to complete it than experienced investigator. Time factor should not be priority, priority should given to research findings that will universally acceptable. Use of citation management tool like EndNote, Mendeley , Zotero etc are great helpful while writing research report.

Very simple. Try building an equation for any work you carry out in your research and hve a trend line or curve fitting fr those equation. Try maintaining your R^2 near to 1 and tht will take your research to higher effectiveness.

Also pre planned research wrk with proper definition can provide effective results .

Good luck sir

Dear Abderrahmane, use reseearchgate to identify other scholars.Also, if you work in a department with young faculty, you can reach out by offering guidance and experience that will help them grow.

I agree with the answer of Dr. Ian Kennedy .

Very useful information

Dear Dr. Salam

- Read the research on the subject.

- Collect all search requirements.

-Time commitment is very important .

-Writing the research and publication in the magazine considered .

Best regards

1. Begin by reading the introduction, not the abstract. 2. Identify the big question. 3. Summarize the background in five sentences or less. 4. Identify the specific question(s). 5. Identify the approach. 6. Read the methods section. 7. Read the results section. 9. Read the conclusion/discussion/interpretation section. 10. Go back to the beginning and read the abstract.