Speaker 1: If you are someone who is planning to do research for the very first time and want to know the entire process of how to conduct research all the way till publishing your work, then this video is for you. Hi everyone, I am Neha Grawal, I am the founder of Eyes Up Communications and to help you understand this entire process of research, I have broken this video down into three parts. The first part is going to talk about how to conduct your research. The second part is going to talk about how to write a research paper. And the third part is going to talk about the entire publication process. So without further delay, let's get started. So let's begin with the first part, which is how to conduct research. Now to begin your research work, you first need to choose a research topic and there are three ways how you can do that. The first and the easiest way is to approach a professor and ask them if they have any problem for you to solve. Another way is to go to the different university websites. Go to the section where the profile of all the professors is listed and then you see what kind of research are they doing. Based on your interest, whatever these professors are working on would be the most recent research in that area and that will give you a starting point to arrive at your own research topic. The third and the final way to choose your research topic is to read a lot of review papers and research papers. Say for example, you're interested in a broad area of research like data science, but you don't know what you want to do in that area. So what you can do is read a lot of review papers and research papers that will tell you what kind of research is happening and then you will keep narrowing it down until you arrive at a research problem at an issue that other researchers have not been able to solve and that would be your research topic. Now I've explained all these things very briefly. If you want to understand in detail, you can check out my previous video. In this video, I've very clearly explained all the steps and shown a lot of visual illustrations which will help you choose a research topic. Now while you're choosing a research topic, there are also other things that you need to keep in mind. For example, what are the research facilities in your college? Which kind of research professor you should work with? Should you do this project individually or in a group? And what are the different avenues to pursue research? For example, through a research internship. So what you can do is check out these three videos as well whenever you get time. Now once you finalize your research topic based on all the above considerations, you need to conduct your own research. And the first step to do that is to do a solid literature survey. Now what does that mean? It means that you go through the research work in your area of research to understand what has been the progress till date. Basically, what have other researchers done in that field till now? Not only does it give you fundamental knowledge about that topic, it helps you understand what are the different experimental techniques other researchers have used. And most importantly, it helps you identify what were some of the shortcomings in their research that other researchers were not able to overcome. This gives you a starting point for your own research work. Now, if you want to understand how can you find literature, how can you download research papers for free, you can check out my previous video. Once you have your fundamentals clear and a proper direction chalked out, you will then design your own experiments and try them one by one. In the beginning, you might need help of PhD students, postdocs in understanding the lab etiquettes, how to use different instruments, and it might be a steep learning curve. But the idea here is to not get overwhelmed and keep at it. Once your fundamentals, when your basics are clear, you will then start with your main experiments. Some will work out, while some might not. Here, it's important that you analyze your results constantly and discuss with your supervisor so that you're on the right track. After some time with more reading, more experiments and more learning, you will arrive at a solution that is new, that is novel, and nobody has ever done that before. Now, with your research done, it is time to start working on your research paper. Now, in a research paper, there are five important sections. The abstract, the introduction section, materials and methods, results and discussion, and finally, the conclusion section. Now, out of all these sections, the easiest one to start writing is the materials and methods section. Basically, where you talk about the step-by-step process that you have followed in order to arrive at your results. So this section, so in this section, you write all the materials that you've used in detail and then explain the step-by-step procedure that you have followed. After that, you can write the introduction section. In the introduction section, we share the motivation of our study, the research gap, and the objective and scope of our work. Here in the introduction section, the more literature you cite, the better it is because it shows that yes, you have really done your groundwork and you know your research area very well. After that, you can write the results and discussion section. And here you share the data from your work, the results, and then you comment on the results and try to link it to the research objective. And finally comes the conclusion section. And here you reiterate the importance of your work, share the key results again, and then share the scope for future work and how your research can be taken forward. Finally comes the abstract section. Now, even though the abstract section appears right at the top of your research paper, it should be the last section that you should write. And why is that? Because an abstract is a summary of your research article. So once you've written all the other sections, you already know what are the key elements which go in each section. And then writing your abstract becomes very easy. Now, if you wish to learn how to write a research paper in detail, this is where I come in. At WiseUp, we offer a certification course on writing a research paper. In this course, we go into the details of each and every section and share clear steps with you as to how you're supposed to write them. We also share a lot of examples with you and the academic style of writing so that you can get your research paper published in one of the top journals. To know more, the link is in the description and in the pinned comment. Finally, coming to the publication process. Once you've completed writing your research paper, check once again if your references and citations have been done correctly. Check your entire paper for plagiarism. And once you and your professor are happy with the output, you can then choose your journals for publication. Here at this stage, it's important to understand what is the difference between open access journals and subscription journals. What is the importance of impact factor? Other than journals, how can you use conferences to get yourself published? And then make a list of journals and conferences you would like to go for. Now, one thing a lot of people don't know is that you can only send your research paper to one journal at a time. Only when that journal has given their decision can you move on to the next journal. This is done to avoid repeated publications and plagiarism issues. There's so much more that I would like to talk about the entire publication process, but I mean, I have to end this video. It's already very long. So if you want to learn these things in detail, you can join me for my certification course on research writing. The link is in the description and in the pinned comment. So guys, that's all I wanted to share with you today. Hope this video gave you a clear picture of how to publish your first research paper from start to finish. If you have any doubts, you can always drop a comment below and I will try to help you out. And now, thank you so much for watching this video and I wish you have a fantastic career journey ahead.