How to Conduct High-Impact Research and Produce High-Quality Papers

How to Conduct High-Impact Research and Produce High-Quality Papers

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1. Russell Group is the Ivy League of UK

2. 顶级期刊 IEEE, ACM

3. 做研究要有可持续性，最好是基于团队以往的成果

4. 顶级的研究：现实应用中的难题；敢于挑战世界难题

5. How to identify an important and timely research project ?
   　　关注顶级会议，到不了现场可以 fellow website，关注顶会的 keynote speech 和 technical programme 部分
   　　关注顶级期刊，可以适当地订阅，以此督促阅读
   　　To accept new concept positively
   　　To accept the information of fund project
   　　　NSF
   　　　EPSRC
   　　　FP7
   　　　Horizon-2020
   　　To trace the work of known scientists in your research area
   　　To read 10 papers per week
   　　

6. How to step into a new research field and conduct new research project?
   　　To be positive and curious enough
   　　To be confident and adaptable
   　　To read tutorial papers, English behind Chinese
   　　To identify the research challenges and problems, and understand the new knowledge and tools
   　　To link these problems with your existing background and experise
   　　To read the papers/references in two stages, classify the papers(problems) and make record
   　　　　1) To focus on the abstract and introduction to understand (which problem, why important, disadvantage of existing work, existing gaps, how the proposed method work, which theory and tools used, how to perform experiments) and leave the theoretical proof and mathematical derivationn
   　　　　2) To thoroughly investigate the design, proof, and theoretical analysis only after the paper is selected as the seeds. For some difficult papers, we need focus on the use (specific points) of the theory and mathematical tools and read for multiple times.
   　　　　Using when learning. Making notes, writing summaries and classifying papers.

7. How to produce and publish high-quality research papers productively?
   　　Paper review and evaluation criteria:
   　　　　Relevance and Suitability
   　　　　Originality and Contributions (highlight)
   　　　　Solid Method and idea (strength and weakness)
   　　　　Readabilty (language, reason, presentation and structure)
   　　　　Experiments and analysis (Justification of experimental scenarios and parameters)
   　　To be confident to target the higher levels of journals and conferences
   　　To link the work with the theme of the journal and conference
   　　To follow the author instructions of the journal and fellow the style/structure of the top papers in the topic
   　　To cite the references of the journal/congference you targeted
   　　To cite the updated top quality references
   　　To built your work on the top quality publications in well-known conferences proceedings and journals
   　　To use citation count (Google Scholar) to determine most important articles with feasible methodologies
   　　To use your own expertise and show your unique contributions
   　　To recite 2 good sentences in English every day to improve the writing and follow the structure of the sentences / words
   　　To follow the author instructions of the journal and follow the style/structure of the top papers in the topic
   　　To be sustainable (Classification and assumptions)
   　　To classify the papers and make record

8. How to write a high-quality paper? 文章的规范、架构、重点
   　　Paper Title
   　　　　Eye-catching and attractive
   　　　　Understandable
   　　　　Relevant to the themes of the journal / special issue / conference
   　　Abstract
   　　　　Why the address problems is important and timely?
   　　　　What are the existing gap?
   　　　　Why the problem to be addressed is challenging?
   　　　　One sentence to summarize the work, and then explain how to achieve these
   　　　　Validation, comparison performance results
   　　　　Application and value
   　　Introduction
   　　　　An extended version of abstract with more evidence and explanation
   　　　　A summary of 3-4 major contribution (one core contribution and 2-3 specific components)
   　　　　Introduce the result of this paper
   　　Related work
   　　　　Logic presentation based on classification of the existing work step by step
   　　　　Show clearly their gaps
   　　　　Highlight what are the difference of our work and existing work
   　　Main parts of the paper
   　　　　Scenarios and problem defination
   　　　　The core contribution (present the system design or the framework of the proposed solution)
   　　　　The specific components (contributions)
   　　　　How to link theory with the work
   　　Validation, comparision and performance analysis
   　　　　Introduction and justify the experimental scenarios and parameter-setting (from real-world scenarios, standards, widely used, or complete consideration) to show the comparision is fair and reasonable
   　　　　Explain the results and reasons
   　　　　What are the insights
   　　Conclusions and Furture Directions (?)

Primes of Lecture

paper 一定要打印出来然后读，读 paper 的时候一定要做笔记，英文 paper 的笔记只能记英文

先熟悉一个方法，解决一个问题；然后改进这个方法，解决同一个问题

好的标题：做了什么事、什么方法、效果如果

Q & A

如何定义“我读完了这篇论文”？

步骤	目的	施行频率
To focus on the abstract and introduction to understand :which problem, why important, disadvantage of existing work, existing gaps, how the proposed method work, which theory and tools used, how to perform experiments	作为了解	最高
To thoroughly investigate the design, proof, and theoretical analysis only after the paper is selected as the seeds. For some difficult papers, we need focus on the use (specific points) of the theory and mathematical tools and read for multiple times	作为base line	较低
implementing the paper	master this paper	稀少