Misc

1. Tools

AI can be more beneficial if used correctly.
大部分工具在淘宝都能合租,价格合适。

1.1 AI Assistance

1.1.1 ChatDoc

Umm.. it’s a bit steep.

1.1.2 DocsGPT

Open source.

1.2 Academic search

1.3 Writing

2. Associated journals

Number
Journal
Impact Factor
Rank
1
9.7
Q1
2
7.6
Q1
3
6.7
Q2
4
6.4
Q2
5
4.4
Q3
6
2.5
Q2
7
None
8
1.2
Q4
9
5.3
Q2
8.6
Q1
2.9
Q2*
4.8

3. Writing Resources

 

4. How to write research paper

4.1 First draft

before getting into the details.

Strategy

  1. suppressing the urge to procrastinate and put off beginning the work.

Preliminaries

  1. review your own notes that you’ve taken on papers that you’ve read that are relevant to the work that you’re writing up, and review and renew your literature search.
  1. need to determine who your audience is.
    1. what the purpose of the paper, is it a research paper, review paper, or tutorial paper.
    2. what journal is it intended for.
    3. are the primary readers of the paper going to be undergraduates or researchers.
    4. the real primary reader is the reviewer. address their concerns.

The big picture

  1. create producing your initial draft is the creative part of the job,
  1. resist the temptation to correct mistakes as you produce the first draft,
  1. you job now is to produce a complete first draft, not a perfect first draft,
  1. editing is the second stage of the work,
  1. it is the critical thinking analytical part of the job and editing at this point.

The “Algorithm”

  1. just get started don’t procrastinate, get something down on paper.
  1. need to work from an outline.
    1. is you may not finish the paper in one sitting,
    2. if you’ve an outline you can pick the work up back where you finished before,
    3. so you are not going to have read it over,
    4. outline is easy to do.
  1. Do not write the Introduction to the paper at this time.
    1. the Introduction is the hardest part of paper to write.
  1. Begin with the experimental section.
    1. The easiest part of a paper to write is the experimental it’s the part of the paper that you’re most familiar.
  1. Now write the results and discussion following the outline.
    1. that you’re created from your list of figures and tables,
    2. this is a little bit more difficult to write than the experimental,
    3. finished it then your’re really getting started now.
  1. Critical editing.
    1. The really hard part of writing kicks in and that’s doing the hard critical editing.
    2. This part is when you convert that into clear concise and coherent English and make sure that written is correct.
  1. Clean up right the conclusions.
    1. conclusions or summaries, using a numbered format
      1. conclusion 1
      2. conclusion 2
    2. it’s easy to see the contributions of the work.
  1. Write the Abstract and Acknowledgements.
  1. Introduction.
    1. Why was the study done, what is its purpose.
    2. Collect the relevant essential background information and put that together in the introduction, you need to be able to give the readers a sufficient background to understand what you did.
  1. Producing references for the paper.
    1. write some notes as you go through the first draft and manuscript,
    2. indicating what references might be needed what they would be about,
    3. keeping collect the references at that time.
  1. Review the manuscript requirements for the journal of interest.