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Why read the literature

Many of us, stuffy in the laboratory behind closed doors, it is better to take a little time to read the literature, to see whether others have the same confusion. Our big Boss said, if you want to have a grade, you have to read, read, read a lot of literature, especially in foreign languages.

Sources of Reading literature

The database should be studied in depth for literature database and professional database. Important as Isi,medline, NCBI and so on. Add a database to your favorites.

To do a subject first is to look at the patent!! This is my experience of experience. Through the study of the patent text, you can understand the applicant's research and development ideas, study patent requirements, can be less detours, but also to identify non-covered loopholes, further put forward their own patents, some patents and references, you can understand the ins and outs of the patent.

Learn about the institutions that are relevant to the direction of your research, and pay close attention to the papers and studies published by the top group in this field and direction. For international leaders and labs in this research area, it should take a little more time to study their homepage.

You can order the alert you are interested in on Google for free, he updates 24 hours, will be uninterrupted to send you a message on the Internet to appear on the topic of the article.

Constantly surfing the internet to see the latest information is not sure to inspire you.

Regularly read a few cell, nature,science is still very important, do not think and their professional unrelated to do not care, in fact, many of the biomedical field of methods and ideas are interlinked, nature,science on the latest methods to use their own field is completely possible to suddenly enlightened.

For your field of Focus magazine (top) (<< foreign medicine >> Each of the fascicle has a lot of readable summary, pay attention to their professional core issue of the album, Supplement, very important!), should be each issue of each article read, and then focus on reading. If not so much time, at least each title & abstract should be read.

In particular, we should pay attention to the English reference after the Chinese summary article, can use the retrospective method to find the original origin of the problem and the cornerstone of the article.

Consult a large number of foreign documents and then search through the literature, so that your idea is unconsciously inspired. Our boss said, read the literature, the most important, most authoritative, and the most depth of what is the literature you look for literature.

Read the literature must pay attention to the following list of references, retrace, it is easy to find more documents, and the more cited times the more important!! Find more articles in this field by searching the author of the reference and the journal catalog.

How to find reading literature

The subject is undecided:

I'm a fan of the nerves. Professor Pu's point of view, reading literature from the beginning of textbooks-to find their most interested in the issue, to find the relevant review, you will find some of the book's so-called mature ideas, in the review is "speculation", and then find the original document, you find that there are many experimental evidence in the circumstances of the If you find such a problem, a popular opinion does not use the current, latest technology validation, you go to verify that there are two kinds of results: proof, then you are using the latest technology to verify a very correct point of view, give him new evidence, this is a good job, and you find that the previous views have been wrong, Then you will find a future direction of scientific research, continue to do, take care of!

You have to know what you're going to do. What is the current state of research in the world---to what extent, and those critical issues are urgently to be resolved. This is especially important for my comrades who find their own problems.

Topic has been set:

The first thing to do is to look for a review article written by authoritative people in the authoritative Journal of the relevant research field. This kind of article information is big, the exposition is incisive, after reading not only helps to grasp the relevant research focus and the focus content, but also can help us to grasp the research field the general direction and the frame, which person, which university or the research Institute, in which direction is stronger and so on; The intensive reading article simultaneously makes the note and the mark is very crucial, because the good article may each read once to have the different harvest, each time the note plus the experience finally summarizes will be greatly helpful to oneself, again is for the different need to the paper to read and skips.

Get involved in some areas that are a bit of a professional but have considerable distance. I generally study the relevant documents of the procedure is: 1, the field has more introduction of the Chinese book (The information is generally relatively old, if the new books are usually brought together in the last 5-10 years of the main research content and results) After reading can have a comprehensive understanding of the development history and the recent situation in this field, Some special terms and English words also have a concept. 2, according to the research content of the last 3 years of Chinese periodicals, mainly through the review to understand the recent progress and some foreign published articles of the names and periodicals, as well as domestic to achieve what extent, in order to please the type of project to play a foundation. You can know that the domestic counterparts are doing the job. If you encounter specific details in your experiment, you can contact them, which will help you avoid unnecessary detours. 3, according to the above learning to master the Professional vocabulary, names, periodicals, the name of foreign documents. My experience is that if the field and the original professional distance, then one to check the literature of foreign languages often can not find good east, especially some keywords often assume the situation, leading to poor retrieval results.

I feel that for the unfamiliar things that I want to study, such as some kind of disease, you have to go through the Chinese textbooks first, to have a general understanding of the disease, so that you will be helpful in reading the literature later. Then, it is also a supplement to the textbook content by checking the Internet for some of the relevant aspects of your boss or the topics you want to do. It also makes it possible for you to reach the forefront of this area at home. At this time, you can begin to read a review of some foreign languages, look at foreign research and progress. Perhaps, at this point you will have a better understanding of what you want to study. Next, you can read some of the original works abroad, it will show you how to complete the topic you want to study. Wait until the amount of literature has been accumulated to a certain extent before you can begin your project. But don't forget to keep an eye on the progress of the research you're working on, and it may give you new additions to your topic. The last article, read the literature, make up the number, make good notes.

For a subject not familiar with the field, first find the relevant review, review is the fastest way to understand the field, because the textbook has a lag, and the treatise is biased to a certain point, excellent review can be used as a textbook reading.

Reading the order of documents, of course, from Chinese to foreign languages, after all, Chinese is their own mother tongue, easy to understand, but also easy to have a sense of accomplishment.

The content of the article is from the summary to the treatise. Generally spend one or two hours, you can check a pile of literature, the summary of their summaries, or even printed out, according to the summary, you can initially determine what is the decision of their own. And then to the Internet to find the full text, can not find to go to the library, still can't find to send e-mail to foreign students, generally get to. For their own interests, not only to see the original text, but also to see its reference literature, generally deep catch up with a few articles, for want to understand the problem also know a probably. In the process of reading the article, of course, to make some notes, build a Word document, do some copy of the work can be done, the advantage is that you do not have to spend a lot of time to find your argument or argument.

How to read the literature:

Take notes as you read the article

Reading notebooks can be categorized according to different content extracts, such as: progress, research methods, experimental methods, research results, etc., and can add their own annotations. The notes should be summarized regularly (summarizing what has been done in the past-------to be aware of, now to what extent---------to know each other's strengths and weaknesses. Predict the future hot spots and development direction--------can accurately attack, find their own direction and goals! ）。 We should look at the results of our own to the SCI, so some of the classic statements, to have a selective mark and write down. In addition, sometimes think of ideas, flashed ideas, notes down, at any time to check, it may be a long period of natural new views.

Thinking in a diligent

Not only to understand what others have done, but also to consider what others have not done, or whether his experiment can match his conclusions, data is unreliable, and so on. The whole logic of the author is drawn out by the way of the chart, which is a kind of mentality of thinking. With picky eyes to read the literature, do not blindly worship, some east to do their own work, found that it is not so, they have to do, they have to move the brain. Read the literature to grasp the focus, find ideas. The main idea is to learn from others. That is to read the literature asked a few questions, the technical breakthrough in the article there. For example, a large number of patents tell a lot of separation methods, the key is not to see what it does after what to do, but to think of the basis of this separation method is what, why people will think of this method, there are other aspects of physical property can be used as the basis for separation.

A great way to improve yourself is to communicate with people more.

Talk to your mentor about your ideas, and share the research progress in one direction of your field of understanding; talk to the Bulls in the direction, and inspire them more than you can read the literature. Not only with the cattle in the field of conversation, but also seize the opportunity to talk to other fields of cattle, cattle people of a word, sometimes you read half a year books can not read. Especially in other areas of cattle, he will give you a ideas, especially in China, cattle people generally not very conservative foreign pedestrians. Brainstorming is very necessary, find a few like-minded people together, the literature everyone has one, each division of labor to read different documents, and then everyone sit together. order to talk to each other. In this way, the amount of literature is not to increase the number of n-th side!!!

Compare reading

The opposite thesis can be read by reference and taste the views of both sides. There is also a review of other experts published at the same time as the original version, readers questioned after the original publication, should be read together with the original. Compare, you can see their own gap.

The most interesting thing to do when reading a paper is to find "one draft and two shots". I mean that many authors have written the same research data in different papers on similar subjects, or on the basis of the previous development of new changes. At this point, if your subject is similar, your luck will come. Because it is possible to compare the similarities and differences of these articles, to find the author (or research group) of the same group of data of different views, the evolution of ideas, or find the author wanted to hide the "real" method. I was in the analysis of the same research group of similar experiments, quickly found their own failure of the key cause of the experiment, a short period of time to successfully complete the production of animal models, for further experiments laid the foundation.

Do technology to be good at comparison and discovery, some technical content of high literature, it is impossible to put the main points are reported, Chinese so, English is so. For example, a patent has a lot of sample, and each of the conditions or formulations are different, at this time to compare a few similar documents, see its common ground there. This is something that needs to be noted in the pharmaceutical and surfactant industries.

Comprehensive reference to foreign literature. It must be clear that the foreign literature also has some untrustworthy articles; another phenomenon is the key thing about the focus he will omit to write, sometimes some details of things he will not write. The problem is that the key and the details of each omission are different, and you find the key to the context and the problem of their study from the contrast.

Single article reading order and emphasis

Paper reading order: 1. Abstract citation refers to the main information, research background. 2. Figure out the main data and explanations. 3. The discussions and conclusions relate the chart to the conclusions and determine the appropriateness of the conclusions based on the chart. 4. Results of detailed reading results, see how the data is obtained, and how to analyze. 5. Materials and methods detailed reading materials and experimental methods, see how the experiment is carried out. 6. Discussions and results to further master the paper, note the discussion about the results obtained from the knowledge and research on how to interpret this article. In addition to the large number of charts in the paper, when you can re-draw this picture, and can be in their own language to explain the picture, it is clear to read.

The most important parts of a paper are: charts, discussions, text results, methods. Now the Journal of Life Science is very high in the requirements of the chart, must do only by reading the chart and its explanatory text can grasp the method of the article, the results, and then combined with the reader's own original knowledge, we probably know its implication. This conforms to the requirement that modern people must grasp the most necessary information in the shortest time. Therefore, after a period of work in a certain area, it is only necessary to look at the abstracts and charts on a regular basis, and to refer to the new methods or breakthrough results, and then to the discussion, text results and methods. This also prompts us to write in the foreign Language article, pays attention to the chart and the explanatory text, achieves the visualization, the information maximization.

Self-familiar areas: the most convenient is to see only the summary, because rely on the background knowledge through the summary can outline the content of the article, but sometimes this is not enough, the relatively easy way is to look at the summary, skim the preface, then see the results of the chart, and finally read the discussion of their interests. But if the article is meaningful to you, then you should read through the full text.

If you are looking for a subject phase, focus on the discussion and conclusions and prospects, in the design phase of the project, mainly materials and methods. If you just need to know the idea of the study, you can choose abstracts and quotations and conclusions for extensive reading.

Personal experience is to try to grasp the author's research ideas, then to learn their analytical methods, and finally to learn writing skills and writing language methods.

The discussion section of the article is really important, if the time is a little more abundant, it is suggested to study and imitate the paper of the cattle people. Different people may have different views and analysis of the same data, the trend of the chart, the combination of arguments, is a very good part of the skill, our boss often said: If a sci-level article let us these rookie to write, may be issued at the core of the domestic very difficult.

I think the most important thing is to understand the essence of the discussion, this is the author of Idea innovation and comparison with the old experimental results of the key part, you can see the author design This experiment, after making comparisons, will be a great inspiration to their own subject.

In addition to the content of the article, but also to learn the way people write and format and so on, such as the same point of view, others may express the very authentic, the same chart, others do very beautiful, especially the foreigner's article, to the foreigner contributions, people's change of opinion requires text to be easy to understand, with a certain scientific popularization, even if not Can also be broadly understood, and then asked to use a simple sentence, can use simple sentences to explain the problem, do not use compound sentences, in the same sentence, it is best not to let the same word or phrase repeated appear ... The last thing to say is to pay attention to the mutual confirmation of Chinese and foreign languages, pay attention to the translation of some professional words, pay attention to the appropriate and concise words, over time, for the improvement of their foreign language level, is also beneficial.

The importance of document tracking

In this age of information, it is often time for your idea to be out of the league, so pay special attention to the latest developments in this area. In the grasp to make their own results, at any time according to the possible "crash" to adjust, to be aware of. And their own topics related to the article must be diligent tracking, now foreign scientific research to do fast and beautiful, we do have a good idea of the situation, can avoid weaknesses, to make new things. Learn about the institutions that are relevant to the direction of your research and pay close attention to the papers published by the top group (research groups and cattle people) in the field and direction of research. For the database of the fixed title, fixed term search regularly, so as to ensure that you do not leave behind every important document. Documents must be closely integrated with their direction for the direction of service!

Implementation of a set of issues

1. Get an approximate direction.

2, check the relevant Chinese review, to see who or which unit in the domestic do the relevant content.

3, check the foreign Language review, compare, after all, the foreign language may be more detailed, to see what interest you.

4, check the key reference documents, pay attention to the magazine and the author's authority, the number of citations

5, re-examine the relevant full text, pay attention to research methods, and technical lines, the discussion of what problems exist

6, according to I can control the funds and local technical resources to consider what I can do, how to do

7, further tightening the range, there is a frame diagram

8, according to the frame chart and further check the original language to clear the details.

Experimental ideas always go before the experiment, all things want to do again, must be right!

In the experimental design and experimental details must be more efforts, and strive to use the most sophisticated laboratory technology. For some of the experiments you have not done, we must thoroughly understand principle, and then do not delay, remember blindly. Some experiments, if they have difficulties in the laboratory, can consider cooperation, Because it is impossible for a person to do everything well in a short time. My experience is that sometimes you need to consult an expert!

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