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Role of a researcher

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Pushing the field forward

2
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What are the academic groups made of

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One principle investigator, master students, post graduates, PHD, post doc, lecturers of senior lectures

3
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How do the names at the beginning of the paper work? What is the order

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The person who did the most, or contributed the most to the paper is given the name at the beginning of the paper.
At the end of the paper, you have the names of the people who oversee the project.
The first name is the first block of people who did a lot of work, in middle is the patients who contributed, those with a minor role and then the block in the end are more of the senior authors

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How do academics get funding for their projects

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You have to get the funding, you have to apply to research council, or to a charity. If you have got publications that show you can get a project to work, or get it published in a journal, they are more likely to trust that you can do it and can give you the money to do it.

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What is scooping

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When you’re doing new research, there are also other people who are doing that research: scooping people means getting the results and article published before them.

6
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What is a pact

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Instead of scooping you can otherwise make a pact, and say you were both the first people to discover it

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What does it mean if a star was placed above the names in the beginning of the article

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A star means that they were two separate groups coming together, but are overseeing one thing

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What does it mean if some of the authors, names in beginning of article have numbers

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They are showing shared contribution at the same level which is called co-authorship

9
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Where would you find the names of the founders who supported the paper in and a list of the patients

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It would be under acknowledgments where patients would be first and finders would be at the end

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Why do the articles usually have a large list of funders

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Hard to visualise at start how much money you need since you haven’t started the project. Once you get to the middle of project you may realise you need more money

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What do research grants cover

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Research grants cover equipment used in lab to people doing the work, to It and the support of the building you are in

12
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Why may the publishing of the paper take a long time

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They need to verify that what article is saying is true etc

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What is a cover letter

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Letter sent to editor of the journal, where you have to prove why your paper is good enough for that journal. Why they should publish it

If you say there is a group of people behind the research paper they are more likely to publish because it suggests many people also believe this idea/theory.

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What are the differences between journals?

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The format and the referenced
One journal may be article style, other report
May have to change the specificity

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What would the journal do before saying that they will publish your article

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They can send out the article to people they think are important in the field, called reviewers. These reviewers then give the journal an opinion on whether they think they should publish the paper or not.
The review then summarises the paper and can give major and minor points.

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What are impact factors

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Ways to judge how well the paper was/ how useful.

It involves how often the paper is cited/ referenced

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Frustrating and satisfying thing on making a paper

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It may not get published, or requires another year first. Worried someone else will publish it before hand.

Satisfying: you are helping a lot of people

18
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Why is it important to publish papers

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Doctor uses information from research for how much treatment to give . Future patients are also being helped.