AsianScientist (Oct. 10, 2017) – Whether one is a graduate student striving towards a PhD degree, a post-doctoral fellow applying for a faculty position, or a junior faculty hoping to make tenure, publishing well is critical for early-career researchers. High quality publications can also lead to new collaborations, grants and awards, as well as the satisfaction of contributing to one’s research field.
However, opinions may vary on how ‘good’ science is defined. Before the proliferation of for-profit science journals, it was mainly the reputation of the scientist and the journal that mattered.
Today, metrics such as journal impact factor, citation count and H-index are used to precisely measure the ‘impact’ of one’s research. As the quantification of journals becomes a science, graduate students and scientists must also learn to navigate this new normal.
Hoping to lend some clarity on these issues is a panel of three distinguished scientists who will be speaking on the topic of ‘How to publish well in science.’ This exclusive fireside chat will be held on 6 November 2017, from 2:30-4 pm, at BASH (Build Awesome Start-ups Here), 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore.
Headlining the panel will be Professor Sir David Lane, chief scientist of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Lane is credited with the discovery of p53, a gene that is mutated in 50 percent of all cancers, earning it the nickname ‘Guardian of the Genome’. He has published more than 350 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of Antibodies, a practical guide to the use of immunochemical methods, which has sold over 50,000 copies.
Providing another viewpoint to publishing well will be Dr. Li Jingmei, a senior research scientist at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore. Li studies genetic mutations that are linked to aggressive types of breast cancers, and she has published in top clinical journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Rounding up the panel will be Dr. Ali Miserez, a Nanyang Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Materials Science and Engineering. Miserez, who is no stranger to journals such as Science and Nature, uses biological principles to design unique synthetic materials that have applications in fields such as tissue engineering.
The session will be moderated by Dr. Juliana Chan, editor-in-chief of Asian Scientist Magazine. Chan, a nanomedicine and drug delivery researcher, has published in journals such as PNAS, ACS Nano and Nature Communications.
The speakers will take questions from participants on topics such as grantsmanship, publishing strategy and careers in science. The fireside chat is sponsored by Abcam, the leading supplier of protein research tools to life scientists, and co-organized with Asian Scientist Magazine. SGInnovate is the venue sponsor. Registration closes on October 25, 2017, and interested participants are advised that places are extremely limited.
Asian Scientist Magazine is a media partner of Abcam.
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