Questions tagged [research-topic]
On identifying, evaluating suitability, or sharing a topic or focused direction for research.
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How can a comparative study be novel?
I can see several published research papers in SCI journals, even written by undergraduates, that perform a comparative study.
Many of the research papers published under this category evaluate ...
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Change of research area for Postdoc [duplicate]
I did a Ph.D. in the area of engineering mathematics. The thesis used some of the concepts from Mathematics, such as basic probability and statistics (Bachelor/Master level), calculus (Bachelor/Master ...
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What are the advantages and downsides of a broad PhD thesis? [closed]
A previous version of this question focused too much on my personal situation. The current one aims at being more generic.
The main question boils down to what are the advantages and disadvantages of ...
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Talking to supervisor about PhD projects
I am an international PhD student, in the last lap of my PhD, and have a little more than a year to defend my thesis. My work is in theory, and our simulations take a lot of computing time. As we are ...
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How may a young scholar without tenure change their field of research? [duplicate]
So let me elaborate on this question a bit with an imaginary scenario: John is a young, recent Ph.D. graduate in computer science. During his Ph.D. he was mainly concentrating on network science and ...
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Master's and Bachelor's theses on the same topic?
I am a student of a M.Sc. in Economics.
For reasons that are really beyond my control, a week ago I was asked to write a one-page draft of my Master's thesis topic, so that I can be assigned to a ...
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Tips required ::: How to engage facebook group memebers to gather data for text anlaytics task [closed]
I am working in NLP (Text Analytics) domain. I am asked to perform some text analytics tasks (tasks such as Sentiment Analysis, QA using NLP? ) on a Facebook group.
I am not sure how to engage group ...
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Is it possible to ask about RA positions after being rejected by the same lab for a PhD?
I am currently looking at PhD programmes (mainly in the US) and have been advised to email potential PIs before I put in an application. I am afraid my profile isn't very competitive and my back up ...
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I have turned myself into an incompetent researcher. I have screwed up my career, now I would like some advice how I can recover?
I hope I am not at the end of the road. I had flunked advanced engineering mathematics and applied mechanics during my undergrad second year. Though I scored decently in the reexamination during the ...
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Do I need permission from motorsports organisations to write a research paper about motor racing? [closed]
I have written a research paper analysing the aerodynamics of racing cars in a particular motor sport as a hobby project (using my own 3D model and resources). However, now I’m beginning to question ...
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Visualizing the list of all active academics for a given topic
For a long time I have been interested in visualizing the network of all active academics of a certain discipline worldwide (e.g. computer science, mathematics, or by a set of keywords).
I imagine a ...
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How do I convince professors about my research interests?
I'm applying to a coursework + thesis masters programme and am wondering how specific do I have to be when mentioning my research interests in my email to a potential advisor. I have applied to ...
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How to look past the fact that I probably have chosen the wrong research area?
I am a computational materials science researcher. I model additive manufacturing process using continuum modeling methods. Almost everyone who works in my field are part experimentalists and partly ...
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I may subject a “Figure Reuse” problem. Please help?
please help me, and any advice would be greatly appreciated here.
I have published a paper with my advisor in a journal, which is one ACS publications. Recently I just published another paper on RSC ...
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What Problems Are Applied Mathematicians Concerned With?
I have been doing some looking around to try and learn a little bit more about what applied mathematicians work on in a more general sense and think that I could benefit from a question posted here. ...
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As a postdoc, I made progress on a project that I was supposed to do during my PhD. I am regretting the time spent on my PhD [closed]
When I joined my computational modeling lab as a PhD student, I was supposed to work on a topic that I was very much interested in.
I spent 2 years of trying, but couldn't show any progress. I became ...
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Research topics [duplicate]
im a 2nd year Computer Science student, and I wanted to start doing research.
Im looking for a topic to research on, or more specifically i want to know how researchers do the following:
Find a ...
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What's the best way to get involved with doing ML/NLP related research?
Having graduated with my Computer Science/Applied Math B.S., I plan on going into a machine learning/natural language processing related PhD program. I'm currently working at an IT consulting firm in ...
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In which situations can I claim that additional data is needed for an existing research paper?
I wanted to write about a certain computer science topic, and after a while I figured out that the same research question was taken already. Still, I think that not all problems where addressed in ...
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How to start research in a field with high standards? [closed]
I'd like to do research on the field Natural Language Processing. However, the current state-of-the-art (BERT) has raised the standards and for me it feels discouraging to start in this field. Should ...
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Should I get help from my advisor? [closed]
I am in serious situation now. I am in the final semister of my graduate degree. I am a member of a lab as the professor is also my advisor. The first 2 semister I got project to work on with my phd ...
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Applying to Ph.D, how to reach out to a professor with no exactly overlapping research topic with me?
Before everyone's coming at me, let me explain.
I am a CS student and been working on a fundamental type of research project. In my project, I had to propose a new approach, find a new algorithm to ...
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How to choose a proper research topic potential and/or having no strong competition
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Nowadays, academic research has been becoming an arms race and there are millions of paper published every year. Besides, a potential research topic/area means the research group is eager ...
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Determining a suitable research design for a pedagogical project [closed]
I am the academic lead for peer assisted learnng (PAL) at my university. I have been given an allowance to evaluate our PAL scheme for law students. This is only a pilot level study and nothing too ...
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I absolutely hate my PhD and I don’t understand the purpose of it
I am in the fifth year of my PhD and seriously depressed. In my first year of graduate school I was not funded. In my desperation for funding I chose an opportunity that came my way even though I did ...
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The “why it matters” of a research proposal
I have heard from academics in various fields that the usefulness of their research is not always immediately clear, but sometimes, a piece of research will inadvertently become important at some ...
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What are “Rare research subjects” (“Kleine Fächer”)?
I've noticed a funding agency offer a program for funding "rare subjects" ("Kleine Fächer" in German).
I'm pretty sure my own research doesn't count, but:
Is this concept / category of research ...
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Resarch Paper on Conceptual Design of a Physical System [closed]
Is a paper acceptable if it is based on a concept design of a physical system backed by some mathematical models and simulations? No practical development and experimentation is present.
In other ...
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I would like to know if a Research paper is possible for making a change in Open Source software tool
I have been using this open-source network flow generator and after doing some research i was able to add a network classification engine based on ML into it, put it in other words i added a new ...
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How to write a research proposal for a PhD position?
I want to apply for a Ph.D. position in a group where there is only their research summary written on the homepage. An applicant should write a research proposal and if the PI likes it then they will ...
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Is it (un)ethical to use your students' research idea without giving them coauthorship (only acknowledgement)?
A tad similar to this question here but also quite different, so here's the current debacle:
In one of my classes I taught, the final project entails students getting in groups and having to run a ...
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Can an academic paper be published about vulnerabilities found in a bug bounty? [closed]
Most papers I have read have some theoretical aspect to it, involving some sort of a pseudocode. I'm into vulnerability analysis and penetration testing and I actively indulge in bug bounty programs. ...
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Can research breadth be a downside when applying for doctoral positions?
I'm going to apply for a doctorate position in mathematics soon, and I'm wondering if my breadth can be of any disadvantage. I have two MSc degrees, in mathematics and engineering respectively. The ...
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Comp science PhD research topic [duplicate]
I want to apply for a PhD in computer science. My end goal is to become a professor and teach at a university. I have interests in data structures, algorithms, networks and programming languages. I ...
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How to start my own research?
I am currently a researcher (a postdoc) in a research group at a scientific institute. I obtained my Ph.D. degree 2 years ago and right away I got employed at this institute and started as a postdoc. ...
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A professor commented that my research is too simple as compared to my colleagues. What does that mean about my future prospects?
I gave a departmental seminar yesterday. It was a short 20 minutes presentation of my PhD thesis. I had presented two of my published works during the seminar. My research topic was to model an ...
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Research dependent on future discovery?
I work in a field of data-driven modeling of physical systems (think simulating weather patterns, particle interations, solid structures, etc.). As the name implies, producing a good model depends on ...
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How can I relate my undergrad works to professors research areas?
Recently, a professor answered my email for a graduate position. He asked me to tell him to what extent I am aware of his research. I have a background research experience in his research area, I can ...
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How to start doing significant research?
I'm a graduate student in applied math (applied probability, asymptotic etc.). I have written several articles on either solving "small" problems, or developing particular methodology/techniques ...
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Is it ok if I haven't decided my research topic when I first meet with a potential phd advisor?
I'm currently in my last semester as a master student and planning to apply for phd degree. I'm going to have a first meeting with my potential phd adviser in a few days and I'm really nervous. All I ...
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What to do when you have more things to say in a published paper?
I have published a paper covering a topic, now I see that there is a lot more to say about the published work, mainly in the theoretical framework and in the results/conclusion sections. However, I ...
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I still do not, exactly, know my field of interest. Is it relevant while applying for PhD?
I am in my fourth year of BS-MS course in Physics in India. I will be applying for PhD next year but I do not have a specific topic in my mind.
Until now I have done 2 projects on Cosmology (related ...
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Revisiting/revised paper
I am wondering how can I split my research into two or more research article.
I heard that there's a type of papers that called revisiting which basically relies on previous work with some ...
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Important questions to ask yourself when writing research paper
I remember I read somewhere four (at least I think it was four) important questions to ask yourself when writing research paper, such as "What is the problem?", "Why is that important?", etc.
These ...
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Can I get a PhD for developing educational software?
I am a senior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After asking another question on this website, I have decided to become a professor of practice. To do this, I will pursue a Ph.D.
A Ph.D. project ...
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Why do so many pure math PhD students in the USA drop out or leave academia, compared to applied mathematics PhDs in the USA? [closed]
I notice that many pure math PhD students, doing things like algebraic geometry or representation theory, drop out and enter industry and become software developers. The ones who finish their pure ...
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I wanted to apply PhD in Clinical Psychology, but my research activities and research interests are a bit different [closed]
A bit background about myself after finishing my bachelor degree in Psychology from a private university in a developing country. I worked at my family business for a couple of years before realizing ...
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How do I choose research project topics for the project requirements in graduate classes?
Most graduate classes include a research project component in the grading scheme. I am taking such a class now and I need to complete a research project.
The instructor has presented us with 4-5 ...
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How can a layman easily get the consensus view of what academia *thinks* about a subject?
I'm a total layman, but sometimes I have really random specific questions, like What does science say about the transfer of learning, or what is the distribution of different of sexual fetishes in the ...
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How to deal with disagreement with advisor regarding research proposal and direction?
I am currently writing a proposal for a new research topic in my field of system biology. This proposal will determine what I will be working on for the next couple of years.
However, I am running ...
