Scientific Publication Analysis - Module 3 Assignment

Part 2: Scientific Publications Analysis:

1. OVERALL STRUCTURES
Summarize the overall structures of your 10 papers:
Are structures consistent between published papers (which papers have consistent structures, which not). Main differences in structures:
• How many papers have Results and Discussion separately or together (which papers)? #
• How many papers have the Material and Methods before the Results and how many after (which papers?)
• How many papers have Supplementary data (which papers)?
• How many papers have HIGHLIGHTS (which papers)? #
• How many papers have GRAPHICAL ABSTRACTS (which papers)?#

2. ABSTRACTS
A scientific abstract is NOT a summary of the whole paper, but rather an extract of crucial information from a complete scientific paper. There is a “golden rule” that an abstract should answer 4 main questions:

1: Why did they conduct this research? (Introduction)
2: How (Materials and Methods)
3: What they have achieved (Results)?
4: What’s new? Conclusion

In general, good abstract (200-250 words) should contain an absolute minimum of background; have no abbreviations, justification, motivation, and references. It must focus on the novelty of the paper.

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3. KEYWORDS
Write a list of KEYWORDS for each of your 10 papers (copy and paste them). Based on rules for keynotes shown in APPENDIX 2:
1) Explain which keywords are NOT good/relevant (highlight them in red and explain why) and
2) Add 2 new keywords inside the existing list, highlight them in green

4. CONFIRMATION OF NOVELTY.
Explain the novelty of the research described in papers. Usually, this is stated in the Abstract, at the end of the Introduction and/or the end of the Discussion/Conclusion. Example of a statement: eg To our knowledge, this is a first time .... or This is a first study of ...

5. AUTHOR’S CONTRIBUTIONS
From your ten articles: summarise the roles of the first and last authors.
How many articles have more than one first author (equally contributing authors)?

6. HIGHLIGHTS
Highlights are mandatory for many journals as they help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. They consist of a short collection of bullet points that capture the novel results of your research and
the new methods used during the study.
Write your 3 highlights as bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point) for TWO selected papers. Please have a look at the examples here: example Highlights in APPENDIX 3

7. CONCLUSION
Write your conclusion for one selected paper. The conclusion cannot be longer than 10 sentences and shorter than 5 sentences.