scholarly journals Journal Reviews and Revisions: Advice from an Early Career Panel Discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Chan Paul ◽  
Dossick Carrie ◽  
Hacker Miriam ◽  
Hartmann Timo ◽  
Javernick-Will Amy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Revision Process ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Journal Paper ◽  
Independent Thought

Peer review is a cornerstone of high-quality research. While attending PhD programmes, we mostly interact with advisors, however the academic quality of our work is ultimately judged by a broader range of academic peers. For early career researchers, transitioning into independent thought-leaders requires increasing exposure with our community of peers, and inevitably engaging with review practices - both as authors and reviewers. Whilst many PhD programmes around the world offer training on paper and grant reviews, journal paper reviews remain somewhat vague to many researchers at all levels who haven’t had extensive exposure to advisors, editors, and peers who share their understanding of expectations and best practices. This article provides a discussion of the review and revision process for journal articles, including a check-list for each section.

scholarly journals Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Phelps ◽  
Kath Fisher ◽  
Allan Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Research Students

<span>Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged that have the capacity to considerably streamline the research and publication process and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research. This paper argues that to achieve high quality research training in the context of today's government and industry priorities, there must be a renewed focus on the organisational and technological skills that are appropriate to research. It reports on a survey of both researchers in training (higher degree research students) and early career researchers across a number of Australian institutions. The study revealed moderate levels of confidence in these areas but also found strong evidence that researchers see these aspects of research as very important and that they require greater knowledge, skills and support. The paper recommends inclusion of these organisational and technological aspects of research in research training programs and that higher education institutions take seriously the importance of such skills and do not assume that beginning researchers are already adequately trained in these skills.</span>

scholarly journals What senior academics can do to support reproducible and open research: a short, three-step guide

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Kowalczyk ◽  
Alexandra Lautarescu ◽  
Elisabet Blok ◽  
Lorenza Dall'Aglio ◽  
Samuel James Westwood
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Career Stages ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
Hiring Criteria ◽  
Quality Of Research

Increasingly, policies are being introduced to reward and recognise open research practices, while the adoption of such practices into research routines is being facilitated by many grassroots initiatives. However, despite this widespread endorsement and support, open research is yet to be widely adopted, with early career researchers being the notable exception. For open research to become the norm, initiatives should engage academics from all career stages, particularly senior academics (namely senior lecturers, readers, professors) given their routine involvement in determining the quality of research. Senior academics, however, face unique challenges in implementing policy change and supporting grassroots initiatives. Given that - like all researchers - senior academics are in part motivated by self-interest, this paper lays out three feasible steps that senior academics can take to improve the quality and productivity of their research, that also serve to engender open research. These steps include a) change hiring criteria, b) change how scholarly outputs are credited, and c) change to funding and publishing with open research. The guidance we provide is accompanied by live, crowd-sourced material for further reading.

scholarly journals How to find the right postdoctoral position for you

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. e6
Author(s):  
Dominic M. D. Tran ◽  
Aaron Veldre
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Postdoctoral Position ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
The Right ◽  
Quality Of Research

The increasingly competitive academic job market has forced PhD graduates in psychology, neuroscience, and related fields to maximize their research output and secure grant funding during the early postdoctoral period of their careers. In the present article, based on a Q&A session presented at a research retreat (Brain and Behaviour Lab, University of Sydney) in February 2018, we draw on our firsthand experiences of navigating the transition from graduate student to postdoc. We offer practical advice to students who may be nearing the end of their PhDs and planning their first steps toward an academic career. Although the postdoc experience is varied, it is important for early-career researchers to make optimal choices to increase their chances of securing a continuing academic position. Ultimately, the goal of a postdoctoral position should be to develop all the facets of an academic career, but with a strong focus on the quantity and quality of research outputs.

scholarly journals Early-career researchers in integrated care: career-panel discussion

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Hannah Johnson ◽  
Henriikka Laurola ◽  
Paul Wankah ◽  
Nereide Alhena Curreri ◽  
Mudathira (Mudi) Kadu
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

scholarly journals A Vertical Peer Mentorship Model to Promote Early Career Development: Implementation and Initial Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Frances Haynos ◽  
Kathryn Coniglio ◽  
Helen Burton Murray ◽  
Linsey Utzinger ◽  
Andrea B. Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Mentorship Program ◽  
Peer Mentorship ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Initial Program

Mentorship is critical for career enhancement and professional development among early career researchers in the behavioral sciences. However, many barriers exist to securing appropriate mentorship, including inadequate supply of advanced mentors, inconsistent quality of mentorship, and diverse mentorship needs. Additionally, there are few training experiences that provide an opportunity to learn effective mentorship approaches and techniques. Vertical peer mentorship programs can provide one potential solution to these common mentorship pitfalls. In this approach, slightly more advanced early career professionals (e.g., post-doctoral fellows) provide mentorship to more junior colleagues (e.g., graduate students), permitting opportunities for both mentorship and mentorship training within the same dyad. Here, we detail one such early career vertical peer mentorship program developed within a subspecialty of psychology (eating disorders). We provide details about the iterative process of developing and refining this program to support mentor and mentee goals. We also provide initial program evaluation data from a subsample of participants completing post-program assessments (n = 109) that indicates that the program was highly acceptable (M = 8.22, SD = 4.25 acceptability on a 10-point Likert scale) and generative of early career productivity (producing &gt; 25 manuscripts published or under review and &gt; 21 conference abstracts) in its initial four years. This manuscript serves to provide a model for developing a successful vertical peer mentorship program and to encourage research in the under-investigated area of efficacious mentorship practices.

scholarly journals Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Phelps ◽  
Kath Fisher ◽  
Allan Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Research Students

<span>Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged that have the capacity to considerably streamline the research and publication process and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research. This paper argues that to achieve high quality research training in the context of today's government and industry priorities, there must be a renewed focus on the organisational and technological skills that are appropriate to research. It reports on a survey of both researchers in training (higher degree research students) and early career researchers across a number of Australian institutions. The study revealed moderate levels of confidence in these areas but also found strong evidence that researchers see these aspects of research as very important and that they require greater knowledge, skills and support. The paper recommends inclusion of these organisational and technological aspects of research in research training programs and that higher education institutions take seriously the importance of such skills and do not assume that beginning researchers are already adequately trained in these skills.</span>

scholarly journals Why Work with Undergraduate Researchers? Differences in Research Advisors’ Motivations and Outcomes by Career Stage

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. ar13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles N. Hayward ◽  
Sandra L. Laursen ◽  
Heather Thiry
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Student Researchers ◽  
And Mathematics

Undergraduate research is often hailed as a solution to increasing the number and quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates needed to fill the high-tech jobs of the future. Student benefits of research are well documented but the emerging literature on advisors’ perspectives is incomplete: only a few studies have included the graduate students and postdocs who often serve as research advisors, and not much is known about why research advisors choose to work with undergraduate researchers. We report the motivations for advising undergraduate researchers, and the related costs and benefits of doing so, from 30 interviews with research advisors at various career stages. Many advisors stated intrinsic motivations, but a small group of early-career advisors expressed only instrumental motivations. We explore what this means for how advisors work with student researchers, the benefits students may or may not gain from the experience, and the implications for training and retaining research advisors who can provide high-quality research experiences for undergraduate students.

scholarly journals Peer Review of Manuscripts: A Valuable yet Neglected Educational Tool for Early-Career Researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McNair ◽  
Hai Anh Le Phuong ◽  
Levente Cseri ◽  
Gyorgy Szekely
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Peer Reviewers ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Number Of Publications

With the number of publications being all-time high, academic peer review is imperative to ensure high-quality research content. The wider involvement of postgraduate, early-career researchers (ECRs) has been proposed on several platforms to address the unsustainability of the peer review process caused by a lack of peer reviewers. A survey involving 1203 academics and ECRs in ten countries revealed their attitudes towards the involvement of ECRs in the peer review process. The trends and motives were identified, with emphasis on the peer review being an oft-neglected tool in the skill development of ECRs. In light of the survey results, the transferrable skills that ECRs acquire from performing peer reviews at a crucial stage in their career development are systematically explored. The findings call for further engagement of ECRs in the peer review process under supervisory mentoring.

scholarly journals Practical changes to reduce ghostwriting in peer review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Mcdowell ◽  
Caroline A Niziolek ◽  
Rebeccah S. Lijek
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
And Training

Ethical co-review of journal articles can be achieved by updating policies and training to acknowledge that early career researchers are frequent and valuable contributors to peer review.

First person – Ajay Singh

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Repair ◽  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Oocyte Maturation ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Animal Biotechnology ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First 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. Ajay Singh is first author on ‘ Local DNA synthesis is critical for DNA repair during oocyte maturation’, published in JCS. Ajay is a postdoc in the lab of Dr H. B. D. Prasada Rao at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India, investigating the quality of and lifespan-determining factors of mature oocytes in mammals.

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