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Research paper assignment
Anna Maria Jönsson, INES
NGEA03 - HT2015
Different kinds of papers
Peer reviewed
• Research article/paper
• Review article
• Opinion / Letter /Communication
Not peer reviewed
• Popular scientific articles
• Newspapers
• Home pages, blogs
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Scientific papers
• Research articles/paper - original research, not published before
• Reviews- summary of recent findings,
- coverage of previous work and future directions
• Opinion / Letter / Short communication- present new ideas and new contributions to the field of research
Scientific papers
• Peer-reviewedquality controlled after submission, before publication
• The journal editor send the manuscript to two or more reviewers, independent experts within the field of research
• The reviewers provide comments, and grade the manuscript acceptable for publication, minor-major revision, not acceptable
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• Is the information new, important and original?
- Results not published before?
• Is relevant background information provided?
- Correct use of references, relevant studies cited?
- Clearly stated aim?
• Are the methods relevant?- Is it possible to repeat the study?
- Appropriate hypothesis and statistical tests?
• Is the interpretation of results sound?- Relevant information provided in tables and figures?
- Tables and figures easy to understand?
• Appropriate discussion and conclusions?- Related to the aim of the study?
What do the reviewers check?
A scientific hypothesis
Can be tested and falsified (Karl Popper)
Should be tested using
appropriate scientific methods
and statistical analysis
Accept or reject the hypothesis
based on experimental results
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Both authors and reviewers should
check the Guide for Authors
available at the journal homepage
General outline of a research article
within the field of natural science
• Title
• Authors
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Aim and HypothesisLast paragraph of introduction
• Material & Methods
• ResultsIncluding Figures and Tables
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgement
• References
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Different kinds of scientific journals
• Traditional journals (costs money, readers pay)
• Open access (freely available, authors pay)
• Journal Impact factor • the number of times an average paper in a particular
journal is cited during the preceding years
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
can be found on ISI Web of Knowledge /Web of Science
• Citations of single papers• can be found on e.g. ISI Web of Knowledge /Web of Science
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Research paper assignment
• Task 1: general questions about scientific papers
hand in answers by September 18
• Task 2: reviewers’ report and oral presentation
work two and two,
review two research papers
hand in the written report by October 20
oral presentation, October 27
Grading: not passed, passed, passed with distinction
Paper Reviewer 1 Reviewer 2
Multitemporal analysis (1940-1996) of land cover changes in the southwestern Bogotá highplain (Colombia)
Impacts of forest cover change on ecosystem services in high Andean mountains
Application of Aerial Photography and Photogrammetry in Environmental Forensic Investigations
The history of intertidal blue mussel beds in the North Frisian Wadden Sea in the 20th century: Can we define reference
conditions for conservation targets by analysing aerial photographs?
Calibrating Corn Color from Aerial Photographs to Predict Sidedress Nitrogen Need
Aborigine-managed forest, savanna and grassland: biome switching in montane eastern Australia
Quantitative assessment of vegetation structural attributes from aerial photography
Braided River Flow and Invasive Vegetation Dynamics in the Southern Alps, New Zealand
Optimizing templates for finding trees in aerial photographs
Evaluating Light Availability, Seagrass Biomass, and Productivity Using Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing in Saint Joseph's
Bay, Florida
Using aerial photography for identification of marine and coastal habitats under the EU’s Habitats Directive
Historic land cover change in the agricultural Midwest using an object-based approach for classification of high-resolution
imagery
Estimating basal area coverage of subtidal seagrass beds using underwater videography
The Influence of Land Use Change on Landslide Susceptibility Zonation
River and landslide dynamics on the western tanganyika rift border, uvira, dr congo
A methodological study for biotope and landscape mapping based on CIR aerial photographs
Mapping of Periglacial Geomorphology using Kite/Ballon Aerial Photography
Detection of Vegetation Degradation on Swedish Mountainous Heaths at an Early Stage by Image Interpretation
High-resolution vegetation data for mangrove research as obtained from aerial photography
Stream change analysis using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Biophysical and Biochemical Sources of Variability in Canopy Reflectance
Quantifying the cool island intensity of urban parks using ASTER and IKONOS data
Progressive abandonment and planform changes of the central Platte River in Nebraska, central USA, over historical timeframes
Glacier variability (1967-2006) in the teton range, Wyoming, United States
Classification of Australian forest communities using aerial photography, CASI and HyMap data
Malaria incidence in nairobi, kenya and dekadal trends in ndvi and climate variables
Water balance approach for rainwater harvesting using remote sensing and GIS techniques, jammu himalaya, india
The use of large scale Aerial photography to inventory and monitor arid rangeland vegetation
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