Tutorial 1: Exploration

 Identify your area of interest

 Contemplate on the research area of interest to narrow it down
 Use relevant tools to organize research
1. Plagiarism: ithenticate or Turnitin
a. Three consecutive words is considered as plagiarized
b. You can’t just fill your paper with verbatim copies of the text from other sources with
appropriate citations. What is your contribution then?
c. Normally, a maximum of 15% to 20% plagiarism is allowed.
d. You must rephrase. Is just rephrase enough?
e. Create account in Turnitin
2. Reference Management Software: Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote usage
a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DmhqWtrUe_g&list=PLKflFsswIls5dZwqFi5yV4hYljmk5PwCO
3. Google search options:
a. filetype: pdf
b. site: bn
c. after: 2019
d. To negate, use minus sign before the search option
4. Know about journals:
a. Predatory journals
i. List of predatory journals: https://beallslist.net/
b. Watch out for fake journals: For example:
i. FAKE: http://sylwan.ibles.org/scope.html
ii. Original: https://sylwan-journal.pl/apex/f?p=110:1::::::
c. Ranking of journals
i. Ranking: scopus based sjr; jcr; core Australia
ii. Scimagojr: https://www.scimagojr.com/
iii. https://abdullahfarhan.com/journal-citation-report-2020/
iv. https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal
d. Journal search in Scopus and SCI: Indexing of Journals are done by various bodies, such as
Scopus, Web of Science, etc.
i. https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri
ii. https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
e. Identify related papers:
i. One common issue of papers getting rejected is related papers are not cited.
ii. https://aarontay.medium.com/3-new-tools-to-try-for-literature-mapping-
connected-papers-inciteful-and-litmaps-a399f27622a
5. Working on your area of interest:
a. The steps for the doing a basic search example for research:
i. Identify your area or topic of interest: For Example, Fast food
1. Is the area broad or narrow?
2. It returns a large number of results when searched in google or google
scholar or ScienceDirect or whatever, because it is a broad area. We must
narrow it down.
3. Is this an interesting topic for others as well?
ii.
 b. To narrow down the search results, search on: “survey on fast food”
i. Google: Make sure to see only recent papers.
1. “fast food” research groups site:edu after:2019
2. This might return the research group or research sites where research
papers related to your area of interest can be found. Select one paper from
here and note the journal name.
ii. In order to search research papers, you could use:
1. Google Scholar: You can check filter for recent papers.
2. ScienceDirect: You can check filter for recent and journal papers.
3. IEEE Xplore: You can check filter for recent and journal papers.
c. Normally, the narrowed the area could be in the format: A, B, C on X
i. Relationships between different elements or aspects.
ii. For example, Impact of Junk food
d. From the journal ranking for the selected journal (not the article title) through Scimagojr,
Clarivate.
i. Search for rank of the journal in Scimagojr: Q1, Q2, …
1. Q1 is the top quartile among the journals in the domain.
ii. Clarivate classifies journals as: SCI (Science Citation Index), SCIE (Science Citation
Index Expanded), ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index), SSCI (Social Sciences
Citation Index)
6. From the papers obtained from the search results, we will obtain the: Keywords
a. For example: junk food, cholesterol, obesity, burger, pizza
b. Note down these keywords as they could be used for further search of papers.
7. Tasks:
a. Identify relevant papers to your selected paper (article title or paper name). Know which
papers are frequently used in your area of interest. [Refer 4e]
b. Install appropriate reference management tools like Zotero on your device. Make sure to
add the selected paper into Zotero. [Refer 2a]
c. Explain the quality of the journal and author following the slides on Research Impact.
i. Author search:
1. https://scholar.google.com/
2. https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri
ii.
d.

Searching Google Scholar

Google Scholar searches for scholarly material including books, journal articles, conference papers, chapters, and
theses on a wide range of subjects. Results are sorted by relevance, based on fulltext matching, where it was
published, who wrote it, and how often it has been cited.

Please note, the tips and tricks described in this guide are subject to change.

Default search settings include:

not case sensitive capital letters of search terms are ignored
AND search terms are automatically combined using AND
keyword searches the fulltext of scholarly material, including citation and abstract
Options to refine your search include:
“phrase searching” Search for an exact match. use quotation marks around phrases “hearing loss”
OR Combine searches: results include either search term. OR must ipod OR mp3
be in capital letters
exclude Exclude words from your search. use – immediately before a ipod -itunes
search term you want to exclude
include use + immediately before automatically excluded search terms +the
that you want included
intitle: finds results with your search term in the document title intitle:mp3
author: finds results with your search term as the document author author:Jones
filetype: Finds only those specific file types filetype:ppt
after: Search for something published after a specific year after:2019
site: Search for a specific site site:edu.bn
# Search hashtags. Put # in front of a word. #throwbackthursday
$ Search for a price. Put $ in front of a number. camera $300
range of numbers:
camera $300..$350
@ Search social media. Put @ in front of a word to search social @twitter
media.
synonyms Google automatically searches for matching and similar meaning tourism finds tourist
words