PHYS-601 Physics Graduate Seminar: Agenda - Frame your Thinking

This guide is intended to familiarize students with research activities, practices, and ethics in university, government, industry, and other professional research environments and to introduce students to research tools and skill sets important in variou
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Something to think about: Parallel evolution of theories, research discovery and publishing

9/26/24 AGENDA

  Library database research tips

Summon and Google Scholar search engines with library apps

What to think about during the Process .

You may have to take a step back and rethink your research proposal.

 

  • Your Habits:
    • Working backwards in a last minute rush to fill in parts of your literature . 
    • Not writing for the non expert/non STEM  researcher who will be following your research.

 

  • Your Visibility
    • Question from imaging science grad student: How do I increase the citing of my publications and research? I want to know who is citing me or following my research?

 

  • Trust: Predatory publisher emails to RIT faculty and grad students, Fake authors, Fake conferences........

                            https://infoguides.rit.edu/srch.php?q=predatory

 

           Scholarly Publishing Timeline starting with the 14th century to now-21st century.

  • 1323: Compagnie du Gai Sçavoir, the oldest learned society on record, is founded in Toulouse, France.
  • 1660: The Royal Society of London is founded.
  • 1665: Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London are first published. Each journal used some form of peer review, although not exactly like today's version. Philosophical Transactions published famous scientists such as Newton, Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, Faraday, and Darwin.
  • 1731: Medical Essays and Observations, the first fully peer-reviewed journal, is launched by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
  • 1743: The American Philosophical Society, the first scholarly society in what is now the US, is created.
  • 1848: The American Association for the Advancement of Science is founded. AAAS publishes the journal Science and is the largest general scientific society in the world.
  • 1869: Nature publishes its first issue.
  • 1880: Science publishes its first issue.
  • 1947: Elsevier, the longtime publishing giant, launches its first international journal, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.
  • 1990: Postmodern Culture becomes the first online-only journal with no printed version available.
  • 1991: arXiv, the science pre-print server, is launched.
  • 2003: The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is founded.
  • 2006: PLOS ONE, the wildly successful open access megajournal, begins publishing. In 2013, PLOS ONE published 31,500 articles!
  • 2010: The altmetrics manifesto, describing potential new ways to gauge the impact of research beyond citations and impact factors, is written.
  • 2012: Several innovative and relatively new journals, including F1000 Research, PeerJ, and eLife, are launched. These journals are experimenting with new forms of peer review, new business models, and new funding sources.

Source: https://www.aje.com/arc/scholarly-publishing-brief-history/

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