Finding a research problem or gap & addressing novelty of the Ph.D project:10

 

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Your Ph.D project will have a certain research problem. Now, who do you find a problem or research gap? For that matter, you have to study the topic extensively. Sometimes you may be addressing a same problem but your approach may be different with different parameters. Then, you have to clearly mention the difference between you work and other’s work. Sometimes, your research problem will be totally unique and then, you do not have to give such justification.

 

While writing your Ph.D thesis and even research articles, you always have to address the question “ What is the novelty of your work?”. It means that the reviewer wants to know whether you are offering something new through your work. Therefore, one must ponder over this question early on his project. Otherwise, you have to reorient your work later on which is a big problem and time consuming. Many a time, students get trapped in the final submission phase due to this. So, one should be very careful regarding this.

 

One should try to publish as early as possible to register the idea regarding a certain approach to a problem. Many researchers try to register the ideas by attending top tier conferences. When you present an article in such Scopus indexed or Web of Science indexed tier 1 conferences, your article’s extended version gets published in good journals. This way you can register the idea. However, you should be careful not to give away the main essence of your project. In other words, you are to publish bare minimum meaning you are to keep the main part for the thesis (more like a trailer rather than whole film).

 

If you put everything to the article, you will not have anything left for the thesis and you may face copy right issue in some cases. Then, you can continue your work in peaceful manner. While working in your topic, you need to check the recent developments in the certain field frequently. If something similar comes into your notice, you need to tweak your work to maintain distinction. For more such articles, you can check the book 'PhD guidebook'

 

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How to find the research papers for your Ph.D synopsis, introduction, literature survey? 09

 

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There are thousands of research papers online; some are good and some are not good at all. The articles should contribute to your knowledge rather than confusing you with half baked knowledge. You will find a lot of articles from the open access journals which used to publish articles in large quantity prior to the guidelines regarding publication by UGC. Now a days, you can rely on these indexing site for authentic articles

1. Science direct.

2. Web of science.  

3. Scopus

4. Shodhganga Inflib Net centre.

5. arXiv.org

6. PubMed

7. Google scholar

8. IEEE Xplore

9. JSTOR

10. Wiley Online Library

11.Taylor & Francis Online

 The articles indexed in these sites are considered authentic and reputed. Many journals in these indexing sites or platforms are free to access and others require institutional log in id. Many a times, your institute may not have purchased the service then you have to collaborate with students from other institutes with access. Otherwise, you can go to Sci hub or Research Gate for the articles. In Sci hub, you need to put your article title or doi number and you can download the article but the articles are available up to a certain a year. You can also connect with the researchers via research gate or mail to provide you with a copy which is a very old technique. You can maintain your presence in Linked In to connect with the researchers. 

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