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Identifying and reading research papers Guanting Chen, Zezhou Sun

01. 02. Overview Identify Papers CONTENT 03. 04. Go Deeper Go Further

1 Overview

The facts about paper reading

2 Identify Papers

Identify Papers Why do • For finding out papers interesting to you only, or we need to • For filtering (identifying) papers close to your research field, or • For reference? identify papers?

How to Identify papers?

3 Go Deeper

Is this a good way in reading paper?

What’s your purpose in reading papers? This paper have similar idea to my paper... Keep up with state-of-art results... Keep cognizant in other research fields... Searching for my research topic... This paper is interesting to me...

How would you read? - Abstract Scenario 1 - Background A student who is required to read a paper about the - Problem statement topic to be covered in lecture tomorrow - Technical details / Claims substantiation - Conclusion Scenario 2 - Future works - References A researcher who is looking for a new research topic or working on dissertation.

Evaluation Will you evaluate papers after reading? How important is it? How to evaluate paper you read? Some questions you might ask yourself. Do they have significant research problem? ● Are they new / surprising? ● ● Are the claim valid / method correct? ● Are they clearly presented? Are they worth publishing / contribution significant? ●

4 Go further

Go beyond papers To be more critical , your ideas synthesis process - What is the crux of the research problem? - Alternative approaches? - A better way of substantiation? - A good argument against the case made by author? - How improve the results further? - Applicable research results to other contexts? - Any open problems raised by this work? - Can we do better than authors?

Share with us Experience of inspiring your own research idea Recipes help you read/understand papers (Tools, methods, can be anything)

Resources 1. Thoughts on Reading Research Papers https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/phd/Hints-Read.html 2. How to Read a CS Research Paper? http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~pwlfong/CS499/reading-paper.pdf 3. How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists https://chem.utah.edu/_documents/undergraduate_site/How%20to%20critically%20read%20a%20scientific%20paper.pdf 4. How to read a vaccine safety study: an example. https://violentmetaphors.com/2013/09/08/an-example-of-how-to-read-a-vaccine-safety-study/ 5. How do I find and start reading research papers? https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-and-start-reading-research-papers 6. PhD Comics http://phdcomics.com/

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