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Sharing of ResearchResults

Group members

Aasma, Ghina, Naima, Saima, Tahira, Zahra

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Research Results

Results are the summary of the experimental outcome of the stud

They include a concise verbal description of the outcome as welltables and figures, showing statistical results and experimental er

Results indicate the reliability of the research.

A key component of scientific research is presenting research

results to the scientific community

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How it can be shared??

Presentations-Seminars, conference talks

Social conventions play an important role inestablishing the reliability of scientific knowledge

Publications -in peer reviewed journals

Thesis

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Why Publish?

A paper is an organized description of hypotheses, data aconclusions, intended to instruct the reader. If your researdoes not generate papers, it might not have been done(G. WAdv. Mater., 2004, 16, 1375)

If it wasnt published, it wasnt done- E.H. Miller 1993

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Importance of publication

publications are expected to provide a detailed and permanent record research.

They Exposes research methods and findings to the scrutiny of the largscientific community.

It also documents who is first with new ideas or discoveries.

To avoid repetition of already done work.

Published work is protected by Copyright Law.

Importance of publication accounts for the fact that the first to publishfindingnot the first to discover ittends to get most of the credit.

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Cont

Because publications form the basis for both new research and theapplication of findings, they can affect not only the research commbut also, indirectly, society at large.

Researchers therefore have a responsibility to ensure that theirpublications are honest, clear, accurate, complete and balanced, andavoid misleading, selective or ambiguous reporting

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What is publishable?

Journals like to publish papers that are going to be widelyand useful to the readers.

Papers that report original and significant findings that likely to be of interest to a broad spectrum of its readers.

Papers that are well organized and well written, with cleastatements regarding how the findings relate to and advanunderstanding/development of the subject.

Papers that are concise and yet complete in their presentathe findings.

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What is not acceptable

Papers that are routine extensions of previous reports

Incremental / fragmentary reports of research results

Verbose, poorly organized with unnecessary or poor qualillustrations.

Violations of ethical guidelines, including plagiarism of atype or degree.

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Case study-publication practices

Andre, a young assistant professor, and two graduate students have been working oof related experiments for the past several years. Now it is time to write up theexperiments for publication, but the students and Andre must first make an impodecision. They could write a single paper with one first author that would descrexperiments in a comprehensive manner, or they could write two shorter, less-co

papers so that each student could be a first author.

Andre favors the first option, arguing that a single publication in a more visible jouwould better suit all of their purposes. This alternative also would help Andre, wa tenure decision in two years. Andres students, on the other hand, strongly sugtwo papers be prepared. They argue that one paper encompassing all the resultstoo long and complex. They also say that a single paper might damage their caropportunities because they would not be able to point to a paper on which they wauthors.

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Peer review

It is the evaluation by colleagueswith similar knowledgeand experienceis an essentialcomponent of research

and the self-regulationof professions.

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Peer review

Unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an main part of all swork, including the scientific process.

Peer review is the critical assessment of manuscripts submitted toby experts who are not part of the editorial staff.

Peer review can therefore be viewed as an important extension of

scientific process.

Peer review helps editors decide which manuscripts are suitable fojournals and helps authors and editors to improve the quality of re

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Ethics of peer review

For peer review to work, it must be:

Timely

Thorough (appropriate? important? flawed?)

ConstructiveFree from personal bias

Respectful of the need for confidentiality.

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