Are we doing research just for citations.. greater impact factors or we want to add to existing knowledge.. what is our acutal moto behind research?
Research is carried out for both objectives. To increase scientific knowledge and to find solutions to some problems at the local level, as well as to add to the professional biography of the person at the professional level as well as for scientific promotion.
What is the objective behind research for a researcher? Is the prime moto is to add the one’s own cv or to enhance scientific knowledge?
General objective for a research is contributing to scientific knowledge. But once you'd done that & published in article, this can be appended into your CV. Hence, answer to the above question is not "either or" but rather the 2 objectives can be achieved together or one after the other.
To some researchers, their research might carry other objectives e.g. promotion, better pay scale, want to serve as an authority / subject matter expert in certain research area, so that they can supervise other post-graduate research in specific area etc.
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