Adopting healthy scientific practices is essential for conducting good quality research. This may be intuitive but it is hard to achieve and does not happen naturally. This video from the Royal Society introduces the problem: The term “replication crisis” emphasizes that replication, a corner stone in science, is often considered of secondary importance. If we…
Let’s see who are the players around your thesis starting from the majors. By player I mean people or offices that will interact with you during the thesis. Each entity has different interests and cover different aspects of your personal and intellectual grow. Clearly the main player in this adventure is YOU YOU: as student…
Dear fellow student, I hereby want to share an interesting way to get access to an extensive data set in the field of Altmetrics. Several well developed Altmetric data providers collect a variety of metrics, thereby covering a large part of social attention that papers receive. One of these platforms is Altmetric.com. Info@altmetric.com In order…
Using machine learning algorithms can be interesting to come to conclusions for your thesis. However, it also becomes very easily overly complicated. In order to prevent getting stuck with codes, data, and programming environments, I present a few tips and tricks. Firstly, make sure you understand what it takes when starting to program in a…
Let’s talk about how to use a literature review for your research. I know that sometimes the amount of information available regarding a particular topic is overwhelming. Consequently if you are approaching research for the first time you may be disoriented and experience information overload. This is mainly due to these factors that are in…
This post is everything that you need to know for warming up your research engine and do your “first step”. If is time to warm up the research engine: You have a supervisor and you discussed with him/her a possible topic for your thesis. You already browsed a few scientific articles related to the topic…
This post is just for introducing a Facebook group community for giving and receiving support about your thesis: URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/231572807787807/ Alternatively just click on the join group button Thesis Support Group Closed group · 2 members Join Group This thesis support group intend to be a group of people with common experiences or…
