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workshop on METHODOLOGY OF WRITING HIGH-QUALITY SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

for professors, researchers, post-graduates & students

The course aims to provide information on a range of skills that are essential to develop a career in scientific research. The course is independent of any academic subject, focusing more on the philosophy needed to make a successful career in research, whatever the subject.

A career in science is largely built on the (perceived) quality of publications that a researcher (or a team of researchers) offers his or her colleagues. If these publications are numerous and of high quality, they lead to research funding and employment.

The course will be held in English and available online – video streamed.

Module 1
9.00-12.50h – Good quality research

- Looking for the truth
- Considering all the factors
- Hypothesis testing
- The research cycle
- The research pyramid
- Principles of experimental design
- The Null Hypothesis
- Reducing the errors
- Data quality control
- A group exercise to design a piece of research to identify factors and develop hypotheses
- Discussion on experimental design and reducing errors

Module 2
14.00-17.00h – Scientific writing

Your marketing strategy
Recognising whether you have good quality science
Different types of research papers
Impact factors and SNIPs
Selecting a suitable journal
Open access and online journals
Journal instructions for authors
“Once upon a time … they all lived happily ever after”
The abstract
Recommendations for Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion
Examples of data presentation
Fraud and plagiarism
Improving the text, and the English
The refereeing process
During the module a discussion on problems experienced with getting manuscripts accepted by journals

Prof. Dr Steve Quarrie has been a research scientist for nearly 50 years. For much of his UK-based research career he managed multi-partner international consortia of researchers, and has published his research in many of the leading journals in the plant sciences.

He teaches general research skills to PhD students at the Faculty of Biology, Belgrade University, including modules on good quality research and scientific writing, and for many years has given training courses to researchers around Europe on aspects of general research skills. Last year he gave training courses on these topics to PhD students and young researchers in Spain, Slovenia and Montenegro, as well as Serbia.

He has also been a visiting Professor at the Schools of Biology and Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, and the Business School, Newcastle University, UK.

His papers have been cited more than 2.000 times.

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Stephen Alexander Quarrie Biography

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Feedback questionnaires from previous courses give average participant assessments of typically over 4.7/5.

Around 1600 scientists have attended the courses so far, mainly from Serbia, but also from Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Poland, Italy, the Czech Republic and the UK.

Improving your skills in academic publishing
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What you will be able to do after taking this course:

- - Understand what the objective of research should be
  - Understand principles of good experimental design
  - Understand the importance of considering all the factors
  - Understand the importance of thinking before doing
  - Learn how to reduce sources of error
  - Appreciate the importance of data quality control
  - Recognise when you have good quality science
  - Understand that papers must have international interest
  - Understand the requirements for different types of papers
  - Learn how to follow the journal instructions
  - Learn how to present information and results logically
  - Learn how to improve the text

Course fee:

– 95 Eur* – Participants from academic and scientific-research institutions and others
– 75 Eur* – Postgraduate students
– 65 Eur* – Undergraduate students and unemployed

Attention: the costs of the money transfer is to be covered by the participants.
*Course fee includes: course attendance, certificate, refreshments during breaks, lunch, postal costs of sending certificate, other organizational costs…

Members of the Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans may attend the course free of charge.

Monthly membership fees are:

– 75 Eur – PhDs, experts, professionals and other interested employed individuals;
– 65 Eur – postgraduate students;
– 55 Eur – undergraduate students and the unemployed.

Member of the Association may attend the course free of charge and will receive certificate of attendance after the course at the desired address.

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