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Research Methodology: Data Presentation and Paper Writing
Ch1. (Academic Paper Searching)
1. (Introduction) ..................................................................................... 1
A. (Whats academic/research papers, or academic literatures?)
................................................................................................................ 1
B. (Why literature survey is necessary?) ...................................2
C. (How to search for the academic papers?)..........................2
D.(Categories of academic papers)....................................2
E. (How to read a paper?)..................................................3
2. (Guidelines for Paper Searching).........................................5
A. (Use the appropriate keywords in paper searching)...5
B. (Search with several keywords on the same topic)....6
C. ,
(Find the important original papers from the references of a review
article or book.) .................................................................................... 7
3. (Electronic resources).....................................................................8
A. (Database and catalog of academic journals).....8
B. (Electronic Resources of KUAS)............................................9
C. (Open access web resources)..........................................10

1. (Introduction)
A. (Whats academic/research papers, or academic literatures?)
,
(Professional publications of text and figures with reliable and verifiable references)
,
(academic publishing)(scientific books), (academic
journals), (theses/dissertations)
(research papers) (original papers), (review
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papers), (professional books)

,
(Academic journal papers are written in a specific format and published after peer review)
B. (Why literature survey is necessary?)

(In research project planning and implementation, and in writing papers and reports)
>> (for the theoretical and technological foundations)
>> (for checking originality and applicability of
research topics)
>>, (for collecting the most recent works and
understanding the key points of related works done by other researchers)
C. (How to search for the academic papers?)
, ,
(from library catalog, electronic database, open-access web resources)
(for example):
(KUAS library) >> http://www.lib.kuas.edu.tw/
(ERM) >> http://erm.lib.kuas.edu.tw/kuaserm/index.jsp
Google (Google Scholar) >> http://scholar.google.com/
kuas_wireless
:
: email
TANet
: @cc.kuas.edu.tw
: email
TANet
List of the institutes providing the TANet roaming service
http://roamingcenter.tanet.edu.tw/select_all.php
D.(Categories of academic papers)

(Academic journals are regular publications of research papers)

(Scientific books collect the theories and implementations of specific research topics)
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1-1 (categories of academic journal)

Journal types
Manuscript
Contents
source

Review
Invited

Original research

Conference
proceedings
,
,
Journals of
academic society
or university,
magazines

Contributed or
Invited

()
Contributed or
Invited

Contributed or
Invited

Examples
Proceedings of the IEEE,
Reviews of Modern Physics

New research
works

New research
works

Nature, Science,
Physical Review,
Applied Physics Letters
SPIE Conference Proceedings,
IoP Conference Series

New research
results, or
Introduction to
professional topics

1-2 (categories of scientific books)

Categories
Contents
Structure

,
Text books and
Widely-accepted
Chapters of cross-related topics, with
Reference books sciences and
examples and exercises
technologies

,
Professional
Chapters of cross-related topics, with

handbooks
extensive references
Complete reviews on
specific research topics

, , , , ,
Long academic

papers
Recent results in
Introduction, review of related works,
specific research topics theories and/or experimental methods,
results and discussion, conclusion,
references
E. (How to read a paper?)

(A quick scan: 1. Carefully read the title, abstract, and introduction; 2. Read the section and
sub-section headings; 3. Glance at the important equations and figures; 4. Read the
Conclusion ; 5. Find out the important references cited at the Introduction. )
PDF
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(Make notes with a pen or PDF tools. )

Ref: How to read a paper, by Prof. S. Keshav at University of Waterloo, Canada.

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2. (Guidelines for Paper Searching)

A. (Use the appropriate keywords in paper searching)
B. (Search with several keywords on the same topic)
C. ,
(Find the important original papers from the references of a review article or book.)

Google ( http://scholar.google.com.tw/ )
>> (),
>>, " ", "electric field"
>>, +,
"wind turbine" + "generator" "wind turbine" "generator"
>>, -, "electric field" -"magnetic field"
>>*(asterisk) , "solar * system"
A. (Use the appropriate keywords in paper searching)
,
(Identify the technical terms or jargons of the specific research topics, which are used by
most researchers)
?
(The number of matches shown by the search engine is an index to the appropriateness of
a technical term)
: ,
(For example: In comparison with the terms Green Energy and Sustainable Energy,
Renewable Energy is the academic term used by more researchers)
2-1Google ,
(The number of matches on the Google Scholar from 2008 to 2012.)
Year
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Keywords
energy

942,000

939,000

680,000

417,000

208,000

renewable

30,900

36,100

37,800

40,100

67,800

sustainable energy

7,930

10,900

14,800

18,800

24,300

green energy

2,350

3,800

5,250

6,980

8,150

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(Use the unique technical terms as the keywords for paper searching
: Google (http://scholar.google.com.tw/) , wind turbine (
) windmill ()
(For example: Searching in Google Scholar for papers about wind power generation, the
term wind turbine gives more accurate results than windmill does)
, ,
http://terms.naer.edu.tw/
(For corresponding terms in Chinese, check them out in the website of the National
Academy for Educational Research at http://terms.naer.edu.tw/)
: steam power plant ,
, ,
,
(Wikipedia, http://www.wikipedia.org/) ,

,
: Google (http://scholar.google.com.tw/) electric field, 2,420,000
, , 24,800

B. (Search with several keywords on the same topic)

, ,
(Use synonyms as the keywords to do several searches to get more papers)
: Google (http://scholar.google.com.tw/) "windmill" + "generator" "wind
turbine" + "generator",
(For example: Searching in Google Scholar with "windmill" + "generator" and
"wind turbine" + "generator", the different lists of papers are shown.)
,
(Use different keywords to refine the search results)
: Google Scholar ,
"steam power plant" + efficiency "thermal power plant" + efficiency
(For example: Searching for papers about the efficiency of steam power plants in Google
Scholar, use "steam power plant" + "efficiency" or "thermal power plant" + "efficiency" as the
keywords)
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C. ,
(Find the important original papers from the references of a review article or
book.)
, , ,
(In general, the highly-cited papers are important original papers)
(For example): The original paper entitled "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon
Films" (Science Vol. 306, pp. 666 669, 2004) are cited by more than 11992 times
according to the Google Scholar.

(The original papers cited by a review article are usually important.)
(For example): The review article entitled "The rise of graphene" (Nature Materials Vol. 6, pp.
183-191, 2007) cites the original paper mentioned above.
,
(Review papers have many citations because of the broader coverage in the research field.)
Example:
Source from: The SQUID Handbook, Vol. II, J. Clarke and A. Braginski eds. Wiley-VCH (2004).

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3. (Electronic resources)
A. (Database and catalog of academic journals)
B. (Electronic Resources of KUAS)
C. (Open access web resources)
D. (Database for evaluating the number of citations)
A. (Database and catalog of academic journals)
Scitation

PROLA
Physical
Review
Online
Archive
IEEE Xplore

http://scitation.aip.org/
(American Institute of Physics,
AIP, )
http://prola.aps.org/
(American Physical Society,
APS, )

AIP APS
APS Physical Review Review of
Modern Physics

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
(IEEE, )

IEEE
; ERM,
IEL
ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Elsevier
Online
(Elsevier, )
; ERM,
SDOL
Wiley Online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Wiley
Library
(Wiley, )
IP ERM, Wiley

Springerlink
http://www.springerlink.com/
Springerlink
(Springer ,)
IP ERM,
Springer
IoP Electronic http://iopscience.iop.org/journals IoP
Journals
(Institute of Physics, IoP, )
,
http://librarians.iop.org/subs
World
http://www.worldscientific.com/
World Scientific
Scientific
(World Scientific, )
IP ERM,
World Scientific
http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/

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B. (Electronic Resources of KUAS)

(KUAS library catalog) http://www.lib.kuas.edu.tw/
>> : []>[]
, (reserve the books, and read the e-books online)
>>,
>>, (Nationwide
Document Delivery Service, NDDS)

(ERM) http://erm.lib.kuas.edu.tw/kuaserm/index.jsp
>>
>>
(Your name and ROC ID number are respectively the account and password.)
>> ( IP ERM ,)
Academic Search Premier (ASP)
EBSCOhost

, AIP
Applied Physics Letters

Springer Online Journal

Archives(SOJA)

IEEE/IET Electronic Library(IEL)

Springer ,
Journal of Low
Temperature Physics
IEEE

SDOL (ScienceDirect Online)

Elsevier

(NDDS) https://ndds.stpi.narl.org.tw/
>>, NDDS (, )
>>
(1) ()
(2) [], [], []
(3) (Journal Title), (volume), (start page), (year), (),
(delivery method)
(4) [(submit)]
>>, NDDS

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C. (Open access web resources)

()http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/
>>,
Google http://scholar.google.com.tw/
>>,
Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
>>,
Wikipedia ()http://www.wikipedia.org/
>>
>> (),
>> Google, () wiki,
PubMed () http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
>>,

D. (Database for evaluating the number of citations)

Google http://scholar.google.com/ [Open Access]
>>, ;
>>,
(Google Scholar gives more citations than other Databases)
Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/ [Open Access]
>>,
Web of Science (Thomson ISI, ) http://www.isiknowledge.com/
>> IP (Log-in with an IP inside the KUAS campus);
>> IP ERM (Log-in via ERM with an IP outside the KUAS campus);
>> (Search for journals, authors,
paper titles, abstracts, and number of citations)
>>Journal Citation Report (Science Citation Index, SCI)
(Social Science Citation Index, SSCI) (impact factor)
SCOPUS (Elsevier, )http://www.scopus.com/ [not available in KUAS]
>>

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Appendix: First page of a modern academic paper

Source from: Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 179, pp. 39-43 (2012).

, , ,
Journal name, volume, year, pages

Publi
sher

Aritcle title
Author list
Affiliation
(s)

(DOI)
Digital Object Identifier

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