Crossing borders: Fostering early career international networks, critical for medical training and scientific research

Peer review in scholarly communication and scientific publishing, in one form or another, has always been regarded as crucial to the reputation and reliability of scientific research. In the growing interest of scholarly research and publication, this paper tries to discuss about peer review process and its different types to communicate the early career researchers and academics.This paper has used the published and unpublished documents for information collection. It reveals that peer review places the reviewer, with the author, at the heart of scientific publishing. It is the system used to assess the quality of scientific research before it is published. Therefore, it concludes that peer review is used to advancing and testing scientific knowledgeas a quality control mechanism forscientists, publishers and the public.

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Using an Extracurricular Honors Program to Engage Future Physicians Into Scientific Research in Early Stages of Medical Training

Medical Science Educator ◽

10.1007/s40670-018-0565-y ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 451-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Belinda W. C. Ommering ◽

Peter J. van den Elsen ◽

Jolanda van der Zee ◽

Carolina R. Jost ◽

Friedo W. Dekker

Keyword(s):

Medical Training ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Honors Program ◽

Early Stages

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Interest in research among medical students: Challenges for the undergraduate education

Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira ◽

10.1590/1806-9282.62.07.652 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 62 (7) ◽

pp. 652-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

David William Moraes ◽

Maitê Jotz ◽

Willian Roberto Menegazzo ◽

Michele Sabrina Menegazzo ◽

Steffi Veloso ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Medical Training ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Medical Science ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Essential Element ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Present Cross Sectional Study ◽

Interest In Research

Summary Introduction: In recent decades, there has been a reduction in the number of graduates from medical schools who choose to pursue a career in scientific research. That has an impact on the profile of graduates, since medical education depends on understanding the formation of scientific evidence. The construction of new knowledge is also hampered by the reduction of medical scientists, whose clinical experience with patients provides an essential step towards medical Science evolution. Objective: The present cross-sectional study sought to identify the interest in research among medical students from a federal university in southern Brazil. Method: Medical students from a federal university were asked to respond to a self-administered questionnaire that sought to identify the level of knowledge about the importance of scientific research in medical training, and the interest of this population in this element of their training. Results: 278 medical students from the first to the sixth year responded to the questionnaire, and 81.7% stated their interest in medical research. However, only 4.7% of respondents considered research as first in degree of importance to their medical training. The variable "interest in research" showed no statistically significant association with age, gender, presence of physicians in the family, or other prior college courses. Conclusion: Although interest in research is clearly present among the students, this is still an underexplored element among the population studied. The incorporation of research in the learning process depends on stimulus and guidance until it becomes culturally consolidated as an essential element of the medical training.

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Jeevanjee Receives 2019 James R. Holton Award

Eos ◽

10.1029/2020eo136956 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 101 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Early Career ◽

Fall Meeting

Nadir Jeevanjee received the 2019 James R. Holton Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding scientific research and accomplishments of early-career scientists” who are no more than 3 years past receiving the Ph.D. degree.

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Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on early career molecular bioscientists

The Biochemist ◽

10.1042/bio20200072 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 (5) ◽

pp. 74-75

Author(s):

Dominika Gruszka

Keyword(s):

Scientific Research ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Stages ◽

The World ◽

Survey Results ◽

New Challenges ◽

The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected scientific research across the world, emphasizing old entrenched problems as well as bringing new challenges and even some opportunities. In May 2020, the Biochemical Society conducted a survey of 469 researchers, across all career stages, to assess the impact of the pandemic on the molecular bioscience community. The survey results indicated that researchers early in their careers are the most adversely affected by the ongoing circumstances.

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Investigating collaboration in project management research: using action research as a meta-methodology

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business ◽

10.1108/ijmpb-01-2020-0033 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Shankar Sankaran ◽

Ralf Müller ◽

Nathalie Drouin

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

Action Research ◽

Collaborative Research ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Early Career ◽

Management Approach ◽

Management Research ◽

Research Project ◽

Content Type ◽

Early Career Researchers

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to investigate collaboration in project management research. Although the literature shows an increase in collaboration between scientists and social scientists for various reasons, it is unclear how and why such collaboration takes place in project management research. The literature does show that co-authorship of articles published in project management journals is on the rise due to increased collaboration between researchers in developed countries and emerging economies as well as developing countries. However, no detailed study has been conducted to investigate how such collaboration occurs in practice in project management research. This article addresses this gap.Design/methodology/approachWe use a multi-method approach (action research as a meta-methodology and surveys) using qualitative data to reflect on a successful collaborative externally funded research project. At the end of the study, a survey was used to investigate how collaboration occurred among the 26 researchers involved, who were spread over nine countries to collect data on a sponsored research project led by the authors who were the principal investigators. We also compare our findings from the original project with findings from a second survey of a purposeful sample of ten project management researchers who have conducted or are conducting collaborative research in order to validate our findings.FindingsThrough this study, we were able to compare the reasons for increased collaboration in scientific research reported in the literature with what we learnt from our own experience in collaborating on a large-scale project across geographical boundaries and cultures around the world. We were also able to get some insights on enablers and barriers to collaboration from peers who have collaborated on project management research from the second survey. We found that, although some of the reasons explained in the literature were confirmed in our study (e.g. the reputation of lead researchers), some other reasons (e.g. the prestige of institutions) were not that important. The conclusions section of this article provides a more detailed comparison. We also found that using a project management approach would deliver better outcomes. The literature on scientific collaboration was divided on the value of a project management approach and preferred a combination of firmness and flexibility. We found that using action research as a meta-methodology to reflect on our research gave us further insights into why we did what we did at certain critical points in our research that moved us forward.Research limitations/implicationsOur study used two surveys with a limited number of researchers to compare what was found in the literature on reasons for collaboration in scientific research and how research outcomes were measured using citation rates. Conducting interviews or focused groups could have provided more nuanced findings. However, our findings did show that collaboration is beneficial to both experienced and early career researchers and helps them to publish in higher-ranked journals resulting in better visibility for the research. This is an interesting observation and merits further investigation. Theoretical implications: Findings from this research contribute to the broad literature on collaborative research in science and social science with a focus on practice-based fields such as project management where collaboration between academics and practitioners is becoming important.Practical implicationsThe study provides some insights into the reasons for processes used and benefits from collaboration in project management research. Our findings have also been validated with our peers. Thus, this study will be useful for setting up and managing collaborative research in project management.Social implicationsEffective collaboration in research can provide social value through mentoring of early career researchers.Originality/valueThis is the first detailed study of collaborative research in project management. It also proposes an action research model that can be used to retrospectively analyse long-term research projects to reflect upon and improve.

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Open Science Framework as An Media for Early Career Researchers

10.31219/osf.io/3wgm5 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Scientific Practice ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Open Science ◽

Early Career ◽

The European Union ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Scientific Institutions ◽

Science Framework

Open Science Framework is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions, but scientific practice is proving slow to change. We have chosen articles from one author that will provide a resource to change scientific research into open scientific research and commit to open science principles.

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Adames-Corraliza Receives 2018 James R. Holton Award

Eos ◽

10.1029/2018eo108235 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 99 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Scientific Research ◽

Early Career ◽

Fall Meeting

�ngel F. Adames-Corraliza will receive the 2018 James R. Holton Award at AGU's Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes “outstanding scientific research and accomplishments of early-career scientists” who are no more than 3 years past receiving the Ph.D. degree.

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