This article on doing systematic reviews well might also be of interest if you want to refine your process to make a publishable review. It’s written by environmental researchers, but I think the ideas should be fairly general (i.e. they mention Cochrane for medical reviews).
I’d also recommend having a loot at Iris.ai. It is a bit similar to ConnectedPapers but works off a concept map (I think) rather than than a citation map, so it can discover semantic linkages between your paper of interest and others that aren’t directly connected through reference links. I’ve just started looking at it this week and have been quite impressed with the papers it suggested.
The idea of doing deliberate practice on research skills is great. I agree that learning to do good research is difficult and poor feedback mechanisms certainly don’t help. Which other skills are you aiming to practice?
Iris.ai sounds potentially useful, I’ll definitely check it out!
So far we’ve done some things on inspectional note-taking, finding the logical argument structure of articles, and breaking down questions into subquestions. I’m not too sure what the next big thing will be though. Some other ideas have been to practice finding flaws in articles (but it takes a bit too long for a 2hr session and is too field specific), abstract writing, making figures, and picking the right research question.
I haven’t been spending too much time on this recently though so the ideas for actually implementing these aren’t top of mind
This article on doing systematic reviews well might also be of interest if you want to refine your process to make a publishable review. It’s written by environmental researchers, but I think the ideas should be fairly general (i.e. they mention Cochrane for medical reviews).
I’d also recommend having a loot at Iris.ai. It is a bit similar to ConnectedPapers but works off a concept map (I think) rather than than a citation map, so it can discover semantic linkages between your paper of interest and others that aren’t directly connected through reference links. I’ve just started looking at it this week and have been quite impressed with the papers it suggested.
The idea of doing deliberate practice on research skills is great. I agree that learning to do good research is difficult and poor feedback mechanisms certainly don’t help. Which other skills are you aiming to practice?
Iris.ai sounds potentially useful, I’ll definitely check it out!
So far we’ve done some things on inspectional note-taking, finding the logical argument structure of articles, and breaking down questions into subquestions. I’m not too sure what the next big thing will be though. Some other ideas have been to practice finding flaws in articles (but it takes a bit too long for a 2hr session and is too field specific), abstract writing, making figures, and picking the right research question.
I haven’t been spending too much time on this recently though so the ideas for actually implementing these aren’t top of mind