I am not published – yet. As part of the EngD course, producing a published journal article is a requirement to be awarded the doctorate. When I do produce a published research article I would ideally like it to be as open access as possible. In my opinion all published work should be open access and free for anyone to access, not doing so can hinder the spread of knowledge transfer and limit further understanding.

I have occasionally seen bibliometric scores stated online (mainly ResearchGate) for different articles, but apart from the “wow, that’s cool” reaction to some of the bigger impact articles I generally pay no attention to it. A paper might present groundbreaking work which is revolutionary but can have a very low impact score if it is a rather niche topic area. As such, I judge the significance of research based on its content rather than how many citations it has or which journal it has been published in.

With everything now online it is very easy and common to find papers without going directly through the journals sites. For the most part, I don’t even know which journal the research was published in until it comes to writing out a reference for it.

I have an idea of which part of my research that I would like to get published, if the data produced turns out to be good enough. While I would love to get published in a prestigious journal such as Nature and obtain a high impact score, this is only for bragging rights among my fellow doctorate students. Research society has caused some journals to become more desirable to be published in than others, fueled strongly by bibliometric scores. It has got so desirable to be published in such top journals that some now consider it pointless and not worth getting published in a lesser known journal.

Like most people, there is nothing worse to listen to than the sound of your own voice after recording it. As such I can’t see myself recording any audio or video as part of my research. Some research projects and topics are more video/audio friendly such as those in the performing arts. Other projects, like those in the physical sciences, might not be so easily and readily turned into an audio or video. An audio accompanying a power-point presentation is something that would be extremely useful for any research topic.

My project is quite heavily computational based, so a screen capture would be a very applicable method of presenting some of my research, as my simulations are running. This is not something that I have done before and could be a good way to present my research as it is running. For this to be appealing it would first have to be made a bit more snazzy though.

Nothing beats the look of a very appealing graph, chart, or other presentation of data. I spend a fair amount of time trying to work out the best ways to present the data that I produce. This is so that not only it looks nice to look at, but also explains what the data means and represents in a sufficient way.

With a primarily computational project have become adept at using code to turn millions of data entries into different types of graphs and plots, utilizing the different functionalities of the language. This allows me to have a lot of freedom with what, and how I plot and present my data.

Tableau is a piece of software that I have some small experience with, introduced to me via a friend who works for the company that makes it. It is very good for presenting any and all types of different data in a manner of different ways. Graphs, and charts presents the data in a very nice and presentable manner that is easy to read and show the relationships that are intended to be presented.