Managing your research

马斯克说过：

高手做管理都擅长把工作4化：

复杂的事情简单化，

简单的事情流程化，

流程化的事情标准化

标准化的事情制度化。

Complex > Simplify > Processtize > Standardize > Institutionalize 

工资是发给日常工作的人: Salary is paid to people who work on daily basis;

高薪是发给承担责任的人: High salaries go to those who take responsibility

奖金是发给做出结果的人: Bonus is given to those who produce results  

股权是发给能干忠诚的人: Equity is issued to capable and loyal people

荣誉是发给有理想抱负的人: Honor is given to those who have ideals and ambitions. 

辞退信是送给没结果，还耍个性的人

Indexing with Clarivate

 I attended the Webinar of Former Pengarah Penerbit UTEM, Ts. Dr. Siti Nurul Mahfuzah Mohamad. 

Scholarly Books

From Thesis

Do not mix languages

Indexing for English book chapters only. 

Reading "Inventology: How we dream up things that change the world" by Pagan Kennedy

 2016: Boston - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Problem Finding

1: Martian Jet Lag

2: User-inventors

3: Someone else's shoes 

4: The future of feedback

Part 2: Discovery

5: Super-encounters

6: Data goggles

7: Building an empire out of nothing

Part 3: Prophecy

8: The Pong effect

9: The Wayne Gretzky game

10: The mind's R&D lab

11: How to time-travel

Part 4: Connecting

12: The go-betweens

13: Zones of permission

14: Holistic invention

Part 5: Empowerment

15: Paper eyes

16: Tinkering with education

Conclusion

FAQ for proposal defence with UCSI University

Herewith the FAQ I asked my students to prepare, which I found here at https://bemoacademicconsulting.com/blog/thesis-defense-questions

1. What is your research study all about?

2. Why did you choose this study?

3. Why did you choose this particular title for your research?

4. What is the scope of your study?

5. What phenomenon were you trying to understand with this research?

6. Who will be most interested in your research?

7. Did your research questions evolve during the process? If so, how?

8. What gaps did you intend to bridge with your research?

9. Why is your research significant?

10. Why did you choose this research methodology?

11. What sources did you plan for data collection?

12. How can your research be put into practice?

13. How will your findings contribute to the related area of knowledge?

14. What sampling techniques do you plan to use?

15. What instruments do you plan to use to collect data? 

How to achieve what you want? By Dr Shane Murphy

8 tactics of getting what you want:

1) Actionable focus: revert outcomes (might make you worry) to objectives (concentrate on what you focus to achieve an objective)

Step 1: Put your focus on an tangible and specific action 

Step 2: Set weekly and daily objectives

Step 3: Set difficult objectives 

Step 4: Operationalize objectives to make them clear and actionable 

Step 5: Seek for feedback regularly to examine progress 

2) Innovative thinking: use your imagination to plan and achieve your objectives

Step 1: Exploit your imagination 

Step 2: Imagine how will you achieve specific objective - plan ahead, use imaginary learning, imagine problem-solving methods 

Step 3: Establish a successful self-image

3) Positive analysis: Imagine you are a winner

- Step 1: Sense your inner voice

- Step 2: Position your character in the positive side

- Step 3: Replace whatsoever negativity with positivity

4) Stay calm when under pressure

Step 1: it does not matter to be nervous 

Step 2: learn how to relax your body and mind 

Step 3: be calm when you are under pressure 1 

5) Concentrate on your performance

Step 1: Gather your concentration 

Step 2: Apply performance signals (easy, positive and your strength) 

Step 3: Seek for ways to improve performance (get a coach) 

6) Use the power of emotion

Step 1: Do not suppress emotions, change them instead 

Step 2: Reset your ignition button 

Step 3: If you are frustrated, recollect your focal point

7) Enhance your energy when you need it

Step 1: increase your mental energy 

Step 2: Always get your power bank charged (good health, sleep and nutrition) 

8) Perseverance as a preparation for success

Step 1: Develop your personal success plan 

Step 2: Retain your plan under pressure 

Step 3: Expect accidents 

Bengkel Penerbitan dan Penulisan Artikel Systematic Literature Review

I am attending a workshop conducted by Dr Wan Azani Wan Mustafa. 

He wrote 60 articles in 1 year for the past 4 years (H-Index 15). 

We should write for WoS articles with impact factors (Q1 and Q2), "Kita yang macam2-kan sendiri, target yang paling tinggi." 

There is no method or results in SLR paper. 

Research article: methods & results.

SLR can be done in a room, no need to collect data. 

Every scholar in Malaysia must own 3 accounts: Google Scholar, SCOPUS ID, Publons Web of Science ResearcherID 

Purpose of academic writing: KPIs, reward, satisfaction

If your research is not published in a journal, it does not exist. 

Mitos: 

1. Artikel panjang tak semestinya accept. Tak tengok panjang pendek. 

Mistake: 

Do not wait! Target 1000, can start to write when you have around 300 (as the first paper); 700 (can be another paper); 1000 (3rd paper). 

研究员（包括我）经常犯的错误，就是等到数据收集完结后才做分析，才发文章。整个数据收集过程可以分成最少三次发文章的机会：早期（pilot study paper）、中期(interim analysis paper)和后期(research paper)。如果想收集的数据总量是1000人，早期分析（100人）、中期分析（500人）和后期分析（1000人）都可以发一篇文章。

Every June, Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) will release a report on citation indexed.

Netherland: SCOPUS = 21 areas (40,000 journals)

US: Web of Science = 15,000 journals in SCOPUS 

Q in SCOPUS is not same Q in ISI 

Quartile is based on impact factor, i.e. no impact factor, no Q.  

Q1 or Q2 in Web of Science ISI are the highest in the world. 

SCOPUS adalah badan indexing. 21 criteria must be fulfilled to be indexed by SCOPUS. 

SCOPUS keluarkan listing 3 kali setahun, boleh download di website SCOPUS. March

Must check with SCOPUS listing before submission. 

SCOPUS 

- Life sciences

- Health

- Physical science 

- Social science 

Not all WoS are ISI

Bukan semua WoS ada impact factor: 

- Only SCI expanded and SSCI are indexed with impact factor. 

Comments paper = 2 pages 

40 - 50 references for Research Article  

Review article

Comprehensive / critical review on specific research topic

Typically 15+ pages (not more than 20 pages), 5+ figures (copy from reviewed papers with full citation), table of summary and 70 - 200 references. 

Tak baca, tak download pun. 

Structure of a manuscript for Review Article

• Title 
• Affiliation 
• Abstract 
• Keywords
• 1. Introduction / Literature review
• 2. Conclusion/s
• Acknowledgements 
• References 

What is a Scoping Review? 

Scoping reviews have great utility for synthesizing research evidence and are often used to ca...

Must have The selection criterion in searching (inclusion and exclusion)

1. Kriteria untuk tentukan keywords = tengok tajuk sahaja  

2. Set tema 

3. 

How to boost SCOPUS H-Index?

 I was asked to boost my SCOPUS H-Index, from current 7 to 10 by 31 Aug 2022. H-Index 10 means I would need to have 10 SCOPUS indexed publication with 10 citation. In this sense Herewith the strategies and tactics to achieve the target: 

Passive approach 

1. Upload my publications in ResearchGate

2. Encourage past, current and future co-authors to cite those articles in their papers.

Active approach

1. Write reflection, concept or LR papers myself that would cite those papers.

- One article on Object-Oriented Programming 

- One article on STEM education

- One article on the potential of GBL

- One article on gamification

- One article on educational technology

2. Work with current and past postgraduate students to write conference papers and journal articles 

- Revisit completed postgraduate research, preliminary studies or pilot studies

- Write concept papers based on the proposed model, provisional framework, guiding principles to be tested in doctoral research proposal  

- Write scoping LR and/or systematic LR done for the proposed research topic and scope 

3. Work with current and future colleagues to write conference papers and journal articles