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4/4/2019 1 Research paper assignment Anna Maria Jönsson, INES NGEA03 - VT2019 Different kinds of papers Peer reviewed Research article/paper Review article Opinion / Letter /Communication Not peer reviewed Popular scientific articles Newspapers Home pages, blogs

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Research paper assignment

Anna Maria Jönsson, INES

NGEA03 - VT2019

Different kinds of papers

Peer reviewed

• Research article/paper

• Review article

• Opinion / Letter /Communication

Not peer reviewed

• Popular scientific articles

• Newspapers

• Home pages, blogs

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Scientific papers

• Research articles/paper - original research, not published before

• Reviews- summary of recent findings,

- coverage of previous work and future directions

• Opinion / Letter / Short communication- present new ideas and new contributions to the field of research

Scientific papers

• Peer-reviewedquality controlled after submission, before publication

• The journal editor send the manuscript to two or more reviewers, independent experts within the field of research

• The reviewers provide comments, and grade the manuscript acceptable for publication, minor-major revision, not acceptable

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• Is the information new, important and original?

- Results not published before?

• Is relevant background information provided?

- Correct use of references, relevant studies cited?

- Clearly stated aim?

• Are the methods relevant?- Is it possible to repeat the study?

- Appropriate hypothesis and statistical tests?

• Is the interpretation of results sound?- Relevant information provided in tables and figures?

- Tables and figures easy to understand?

• Appropriate discussion and conclusions?- Related to the aim of the study?

What do the reviewers check?

A scientific hypothesis

Can be tested and falsified (Karl Popper)

Should be tested using

appropriate scientific methods

and statistical analysis

Accept or reject the hypothesis

based on experimental results

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Both authors and reviewers should

check the Guide for Authors

available at the journal homepage

General outline of a research article

within the field of natural science

• Title

• Authors

• Abstract

• Keywords

• Introduction

• Aim and HypothesisLast paragraph of introduction

• Material & Methods

• ResultsIncluding Figures and Tables

• Discussion

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgement

• References

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Different kinds of scientific journals

• Traditional journals (costs money, readers pay)

• Open access (freely available, authors pay)

• Journal Impact factor • the number of times an average paper has been cited

during the preceding years

https://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/JCRJournalHomeAction.action?

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

can be found on ISI Web of Knowledge /Web of Science

• Citations of single papers• can be found on e.g. ISI Web of Knowledge /Web of Science

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Research paper assignment

Written report and oral presentation

work two and two,

review two research papers

Hand in the written report (full report), any time between April 15 and June 3

oral presentation (short summary), June 5

Grading (15%): not passed, passed, passed with distinction

Paper Reviewer 1 Reviewer 2

Multitemporal analysis (1940-1996) of land cover changes in the southwestern Bogotá highplain (Colombia)

Impacts of forest cover change on ecosystem services in high Andean mountains

Application of Aerial Photography and Photogrammetry in Environmental Forensic Investigations

The history of intertidal blue mussel beds in the North Frisian Wadden Sea in the 20th century: Can we define reference

conditions for conservation targets by analysing aerial photographs?

Calibrating Corn Color from Aerial Photographs to Predict Sidedress Nitrogen Need

Aborigine-managed forest, savanna and grassland: biome switching in montane eastern Australia

Quantitative assessment of vegetation structural attributes from aerial photography

Braided River Flow and Invasive Vegetation Dynamics in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Optimizing templates for finding trees in aerial photographs

Evaluating Light Availability, Seagrass Biomass, and Productivity Using Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing in Saint Joseph's

Bay, Florida

Using aerial photography for identification of marine and coastal habitats under the EU’s Habitats Directive

Historic land cover change in the agricultural Midwest using an object-based approach for classification of high-resolution

imagery

Estimating basal area coverage of subtidal seagrass beds using underwater videography

The Influence of Land Use Change on Landslide Susceptibility Zonation

River and landslide dynamics on the western tanganyika rift border, uvira, dr congo

A methodological study for biotope and landscape mapping based on CIR aerial photographs

Mapping of Periglacial Geomorphology using Kite/Ballon Aerial Photography

Detection of Vegetation Degradation on Swedish Mountainous Heaths at an Early Stage by Image Interpretation

High-resolution vegetation data for mangrove research as obtained from aerial photography

Stream change analysis using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Biophysical and Biochemical Sources of Variability in Canopy Reflectance

Quantifying the cool island intensity of urban parks using ASTER and IKONOS data

Progressive abandonment and planform changes of the central Platte River in Nebraska, central USA, over historical timeframes

Glacier variability (1967-2006) in the teton range, Wyoming, United States

Classification of Australian forest communities using aerial photography, CASI and HyMap data

Malaria incidence in nairobi, kenya and dekadal trends in ndvi and climate variables

Water balance approach for rainwater harvesting using remote sensing and GIS techniques, jammu himalaya, india

The use of large scale Aerial photography to inventory and monitor arid rangeland vegetation

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