scholarly journals Writing a strong scientific paper in medicine and the biomedical sciences: a checklist and recommendations for early career researchers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payam Behzadi ◽  
Márió Gajdács
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
The One ◽  
Medical Programs

AbstractScientific writing is an important skill in both academia and clinical practice. The skills for writing a strong scientific paper are necessary for researchers (comprising academic staff and health-care professionals). The process of a scientific research will be completed by reporting the obtained results in the form of a strong scholarly publication. Therefore, an insufficiency in scientific writing skills may lead to consequential rejections. This feature results in undesirable impact for their academic careers, promotions and credits. Although there are different types of papers, the original article is normally the outcome of experimental/epidemiological research. On the one hand, scientific writing is part of the curricula for many medical programs. On the other hand, not every physician may have adequate knowledge on formulating research results for publication adequately. Hence, the present review aimed to introduce the details of creating a strong original article for publication (especially for novice or early career researchers).

scholarly journals CLOSE-RANGE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN ALPINE TERRAIN

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
M. Rutzinger ◽  
B. Höfle ◽  
R. Lindenbergh ◽  
S. Oude Elberink ◽  
F. Pirotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Students ◽  
Range Sensing ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Alpine Research ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
The One

Early career researchers such as PhD students are a main driving force of scientific research and are for a large part responsible for research innovation. They work on specialized topics within focused research groups that have a limited number of members, but might also have limited capacity in terms of lab equipment. This poses a serious challenge for educating such students as it is difficult to group a sufficient number of them to enable efficient knowledge transfer. To overcome this problem, the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 on close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain was organized in Obergurgl, Austria, by an international team from several universities and research centres. Of the applicants a group of 40 early career researchers were selected with interest in about ten types of specialized surveying tools, i.e. laser scanners, a remotely piloted aircraft system, a thermal camera, a backpack mobile mapping system and different grade photogrammetric equipment. During the one-week summer school, students were grouped according to their personal preference to work with one such type of equipment under guidance of an expert lecturer. All students were required to capture and process field data on a mountain-related theme like landslides or rock glaciers. The work on the assignments lasted the whole week but was interspersed with lectures on selected topics by invited experts. The final task of the summer school participants was to present and defend their results to their peers, lecturers and other colleagues in a symposium-like setting. Here we present the framework and content of this summer school which brought together scientists from close-range sensing and environmental and geosciences.

scholarly journals CLOSE-RANGE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN ALPINE TERRAIN

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rutzinger ◽  
B. Höfle ◽  
R. Lindenbergh ◽  
S. Oude Elberink ◽  
F. Pirotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Students ◽  
Range Sensing ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Alpine Research ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
The One

Early career researchers such as PhD students are a main driving force of scientific research and are for a large part responsible for research innovation. They work on specialized topics within focused research groups that have a limited number of members, but might also have limited capacity in terms of lab equipment. This poses a serious challenge for educating such students as it is difficult to group a sufficient number of them to enable efficient knowledge transfer. To overcome this problem, the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 on close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain was organized in Obergurgl, Austria, by an international team from several universities and research centres. Of the applicants a group of 40 early career researchers were selected with interest in about ten types of specialized surveying tools, i.e. laser scanners, a remotely piloted aircraft system, a thermal camera, a backpack mobile mapping system and different grade photogrammetric equipment. During the one-week summer school, students were grouped according to their personal preference to work with one such type of equipment under guidance of an expert lecturer. All students were required to capture and process field data on a mountain-related theme like landslides or rock glaciers. The work on the assignments lasted the whole week but was interspersed with lectures on selected topics by invited experts. The final task of the summer school participants was to present and defend their results to their peers, lecturers and other colleagues in a symposium-like setting. Here we present the framework and content of this summer school which brought together scientists from close-range sensing and environmental and geosciences.

scholarly journals Development Support of Early Career Researchers in the Netherlands: Lessons for Australia

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110475
Author(s):  
Craig P. Speelman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University System ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
High Level ◽  
Australian Universities

Australian universities are faced with the imminent retirement of a large proportion of their researchers. One way to avoid a decrement in research performance is to consider greater support for early career researchers (ECRs). To investigate how another university system that is ranked high in research performance supports its ECRs several universities in the Netherlands were visited. Seventeen senior academic staff in these universities were interviewed to examine their perceptions of the support that is provided for the development of ECRs, and the nature of the research environment in which they are employed. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and coded using a thematic analysis procedure that was guided by the IPA framework to identify common themes amongst the views of the interviewees. Several features of the Dutch university system were identified as different to the Australian system and which the interviewees suggested were responsible for the high level research performance exhibited by their universities. These include the organization of universities by chair groups that are responsible for both research and teaching in a subject area, tenure track systems, and generous financial and material support for developmental activities. On the basis of these findings, I recommend Australian universities consider revising the support they provide to ECRs to be more aligned with what is provided in the Dutch system.

scholarly journals First person – Aini Gusmira

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (19) ◽  
pp. jcs254656
Keyword(s):  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cholesterol Depletion ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Aini Gusmira is first author on ‘Regulation of caveolae through cholesterol-depletion-dependent tubulation mediated by PACSIN2’, published in JCS. Aini conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Shiro Suetsugu's lab at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She is now an academic staff member in the lab of Dr Anton Bahtiar at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Indonesia, investigating the role of the cell membrane in disease processes.

Scientific writing and publishing for early-career researchers from the perspective of young chemists

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (35) ◽  
pp. 18674-18680
Author(s):  
Shona M. Richardson ◽  
Federico Bella ◽  
Victor Mougel ◽  
Jovana V. Milić
Keyword(s):  
Writing Process ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

This editorial provides suggestions on scientific writing from the perspective of early-career chemists to facilitate the writing process and provides relevant resources for early-career researchers in preparing their first manuscripts.

scholarly journals Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Toribio-Flórez ◽  
Lukas Anneser ◽  
Felipe Nathan deOliveira-Lopes ◽  
Martijn Pallandt ◽  
Isabell Tunn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Max Planck Society ◽  
Doctoral Candidates ◽  
Scientific Fields

Open science (OS) is of paramount importance for the improvement of science worldwide and across research fields. Recent years have witnessed a transition toward open and transparent scientific practices, but there is still a long way to go. Early career researchers (ECRs) are of crucial relevance in the process of steering toward the standardization of OS practices, as they will become the future decision makers of the institutional change that necessarily accompanies this transition. Thus, it is imperative to gain insight into where ECRs stand on OS practices. Under this premise, the Open Science group of the Max Planck PhDnet designed and conducted an online survey to assess the stance toward OS practices of doctoral candidates from the Max Planck Society. As one of the leading scientific institutions for basic research worldwide, the Max Planck Society provides a considerable population of researchers from multiple scientific fields, englobed into three sections: biomedical sciences, chemistry, physics and technology, and human and social sciences. From an approximate total population of 5,100 doctoral candidates affiliated with the Max Planck Society, the survey collected responses from 568 doctoral candidates. The survey assessed self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and implementation of different OS practices, namely, open access publications, open data, preregistrations, registered reports, and replication studies. ECRs seemed to hold a generally positive view toward these different practices and to be interested in learning more about them. Furthermore, we found that ECRs’ knowledge and positive attitudes predicted the extent to which they implemented these OS practices, although levels of implementation were rather low in the past. We observed differences and similarities between scientific sections. We discuss these differences in terms of need and feasibility to apply these OS practices in specific scientific fields, but additionally in relation to the incentive systems that shape scientific communities. Lastly, we discuss the implications that these results can have for the training and career advancement of ECRs, and ultimately, for the consolidation of OS practices.

Support early-career researchers for post-pandemic prospects

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 580 (7802) ◽  
pp. 185-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arild Husby ◽  
Gemma Modinos
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers
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