SCI2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cloning, Citation Index, Impact Factor
25 May 2018
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Lecture 1 – Science Communication
What audiences do scientists communicate with? Why?
• Colleagues (other scientists)
• To general public
o Provide funding for research
o Benefits
• Industry
• Government
• Funding agency
• Manager
• Written words
o Journal
o Books
• Verbal
o Conferences
o Seminars
o Over coffee
• Online
o Blogs
o Personal webpages
o Social media: twitter/facebook
The importance of peer review and the scientific publication process
• Presents the data: record of what you’ve done
• Dated
o When it was done is recorded, discovery date
o Getting credited
• Authorship
o Who did it, who did it first
• Peer reviewed
o Its checked, bad or erroneous work is weeded out
o Serves two key functions
▪ Acts as a filter
• Ensures research is properly verified and accurate
before being published
▪ Improves the quality of the research
• Rigorous review by other experts helps to hone key
points and correct inadvertent errors
• Stages of peer review process
1. Submit manuscript to editor with covering letter
2. Send out for review to an expert
3. Editor receives comments and makes a decision: →
accept/reject/revise → author revises manuscript
4. Acceptance
5. Process is anonymous
• First author
o Collects most of the data, does most of the work
• Combined/equal authors
• Last author
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