Productivity for researchers: 9 brilliant tips

Are you great at procrastinating? Do you wish you could get more done in a week, or just do things ‘better?’ Here are some helpful hints and tips for your research workflow!

By Stacy Konkiel

At Altmetric, we provide actionable insights into the online engagement surrounding published research. In early 2017 we asked researchers to share their favorite productivity tips and tricks for tackling their to-do lists, in the hope picking up some ideas ourselves and sharing their wisdom with the wider community. Here are some of their top recommendations.

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Networking: a very short cheat sheet

We all know the value of networking. Here’s a very quick rundown of best practises, from Amali H. Thrimawithana

Networking plays a vital role in any scientist’s career development, being one of the main ingredients in building a professional profile. It feels especially essential in my own field of informatics and data science, where techniques and technology are rapidly evolving and cross-discipline collaborations are rampant.

Networking helps us stay up to date with developments, provides a space to learn, enhances communication skills, creates new opportunities, and helps to build a professional profile.

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Conferences provide you with a literal stage to gain connections

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No such animal

Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman describes the structure of quasi-crystals, the discovery of which won him the scorn of colleagues in the 1980’s and then the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2011.

 

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Lasers, atomic clocks, and the coolest stuff in the universe. Bill Phillips explains how laser cooling, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, led to a revolution in time-keeping.

 

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Conversations with the Countess part 2: Lindau: A Nerd Heaven of Nobels and Nobles

Alaina G. Levine is talking to Countess Bettina Bernadotte, from the Lindau conference

If you missed the first part of the interview, catch up here.

Lindau Island. Credit: CC-BY Edda Praefcke

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