07-03-2021

HOW TO READ A WHY TO READ SCIENTIFIC PAPER?

SCIENTIFIC PAPER?  To know what is happening in the
scientific area / challenges being
faced

DR. DHAVAL PUJARA  To get new ideas to do research

PROFESSOR AND HEAD  To learn new techniques / methods

DEPARTMENT OF EC ENGINEERING, / design / architecture / algorithm
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
NIRMA UNIVERSIT Y
AHMEDABAD – 382 481
 To identify researchers in the field
of interest

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS TYPES OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Review Paper gives Research Paper
an overview of the contains the design /
scientific field or description of new
topic by summarizing technique / results of
the data and experiments /how the
conclusions from experiments were
many studies / done, etc.
sources.

HOW TO DISTINGUISH BET WEEN

STRUCTURE OF A SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
REVIEW AND RESEARCH PAPER?

Many review papers are labeled as ‘review’

on the title of the paper.

Generally, Review papers don't have a

‘Method and Result’ section.

In a review paper, graphs, tables, or figures

containing actual data contains citations in
the figure legend to the primary research
papers that originally reported the findings.

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STRUCTURE OF A SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PAPER READING STEP-1

First Read:
 Title
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Related Work
 Conclusion
 References (only cited in any o f the above)

PAPER READING STEP-2 PAPER READING STEP-3

Answer Following Questions: Scan the Paper for:

1. For whom the paper is written?
2. What type of paper is this?
3. What is the problem being solved?
4. Which other papers is it related to?
5. Is the paper well written?
 Headings and Sub-headings
 Figures / Diagrams / Graphs / Charts
 Important Phrases / Words
 All References

PAPER READING STEP-4 PAPER READING STEP-5

Read Paper Thoroughly:

After Spep-3, should be able to:
 Grasp the content of the paper
 Judge the difficulty level of the paper
 Decide the pre-requisite knowledge required to
understand the paper
 Read the entire paper with great attention.
 Attempt to virtually re-implement the paper.
 Jot down important ideas for future work.
At the end of this step, you should be able to identify strong
and weak points of the paper. In particular, you should be
able to pinpoint implicit assumptions, missing citations to
relevant work, and potential issues with experimental or
analytical techniques.

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HOW TO READ EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS? PAPER READING TIPS

Identify:  Read slowly, take notes as you read

 Start by reading the title and abstract
 Setting of the experiment
 Try to find out, if authors have overlooked something
 What parameters are measured?
 Do not assume that the paper is correct, even if
 Method used to analyse the results
published in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal
 Interpretation of the results done by the authors
 If at first you don’t understand, read and re-read
 Conclusion drawn based on the results

ONE PAGE SUMMARY FROM THE PAPER

 Gist (one or two sentences) of the paper.

 Outline of the main points of the paper, including
assumptions made, arguments presented, data
analysed, and conclusions drawn.
 Any limitations or extensions you see for the ideas in
the paper.
 Your opinion of the paper; primarily, the quality of the
ideas and its potential impact.