science communication for graduate students going beyond IF and Scopus index (v1.0) Dasapta Erwin Irawan 25 January 2016 Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung Event: Workshop ”Scicomm for grad students” Institut Teknologi Bandung
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science communication for graduate studentsgoing beyond IF and Scopus index (v1.0)
Dasapta Erwin Irawan25 January 2016
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology,Institut Teknologi BandungEvent: Workshop ”Scicomm for grad students”Institut Teknologi Bandung
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• research or course work program? and how long does it take?• what are the outputs?• how can we do course work and research both in 2 years(master) and PhD (3 years)?
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the ”unfortunate” answers
• type and duration: it’s a research program and the endorsedduration is two years for master and three years for PhD
• outputs: thesis and publication• time management: you have to manage time to do both of them
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the major components
• course work (see the curriculum)• research work (based on selected major and topic)• writing, promoting and disseminating (the somewhat hardestpart?)
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how to write your results with the least effort: the don’ts
• don’t wait until the last• don’t wait until you get the fixed outline• don’t start from page 1
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how to write your results with the least effort: the dos
• publish early• publish often• start with random thoughts• use various venues to write• own your research
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publish early
bare in mind that:
• the main output of your master/PhD is thesis but it shouldn’t beyour only output
• you can even start it in your first semester, even when you don’thave any topic yet
• start writing to harvest ideas from people, make a proposal, takenote, review literature, etc
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publish often
• treat your manuscript as a live document• use version control• write more as you move to the next step
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what you can expect from the grad school
• guidelines to write proposal, thesis, paper, etc• institutional website to promote your research• research support (grant, sponsorship, etc)
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the venues to promote and disseminate your results
• blogs: personal or institutions• social media: twitter is recommended to harvest ideas and newdevelopment and FB is recommended to share your results
• seminar: private initiatives or start a study group
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start with random thoughts
• our brain works in random mode many times and we tend toignore it
• ideas need to be harvested, discussed, and formulated(independently or with your supervisor/s)
• you need to make a selection criteria to filter the ideas, (eg:limited time duration to finish master or PhD), cost feasibility,needed skills (eg: programming, math, etc)
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about those metrics
research cycle
Figure 2: Research cycle (Research resources: Edinburgh Napier Univ.17
The journal Impact Factor is the average number of timesarticles from the journal published in the past two yearshave been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor iscalculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCRyear by the total number of articles published in the twoprevious years. (Thomson Reuters: Web of Science)
• open data• open methods (to endorse reproducibility and replicability)• (using) open source software• open access to research outputs• open peer-review (pre or post publication)
my example: what I am starting to do and keeping it as habit
• stage 1: research proposal• stage 2: research implementation• stage 3: report writing and publications• stage 4: dissemination• stage 5: data set management
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stage 1: research proposal
• write and publish your proposal to invite comments and (whoknows) a funder (eg: on RIOJournal),
• make a literature review paper as the basis of the proposal, andpublish it,
• uploads preliminary data set in accessible repository.
• Where to publish?• How much does it cost?• Do we still have rights?
• open access vs conventional/legacy journals.• problem with open access: article publishing cost• problem with legacy journals: copyright transferagreement
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stage 4: dissemination
• it’s about how to increase impact: via online visibility• what are the tools? You can try: ImpactStory or GrowKudos• how much does it cost? Connection cost only
• is RG/Academia an open access space?• answer: no, they’re socmeds• they offers archiving facilities in return of selling ads.
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stage 5: data set management
• make it accessible. Read: Making Datasets Visible andAccessible: DataCite’s First Summer Meeting and Making opendata accessible to data science beginners)
• use general and public formats (eg: odt, csv, etc). Read:Membuat Data Geosains Dapat Didata dan Dirujuk.
A curated list of readings are also available on my Zenodo repository
• Tennant, J., 2016, The open citation index, Blog Science Open.• Pevatolo, M.C., 2016, Private spaces, public science? Open accessand academic social media, https://t.co/ublvRi9ScM
• Kim, H., 2015, How to index journal in Scopus and WoS, (Zenodorepo)
• Broch, E., 2011, Journal Impact factors: what they mean, whatthey don’t mean, and why you should care, Princeton blogs(Zenodo repo)
• The Conversations: Busting the top five myths about openaccess publishing
• Nature: Price doesn’t always buy prestige in open access• Wikipedia/Registry of Open Access Repositories• Wikipedia/Open Access• How and why I use blogging• more readings online.