Impact factors, H-indexes, and social media mentions. What do these all mean, where do they come from, and should you care about them as a PhD student? Perhaps even more importantly, how else could we measure research impact?

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Show Notes:

Taspinar, A., & Sirin, A. (2010). Effect of acupressure on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in gynecologic cancer patients in Turkey. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 14(1), 49-54.

'What is impact factor? Why is it bad for science?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9-HUJvxO8E

Altmetric.com

'Academic journals with a presence on Twitter are more widely disseminated and receive a high number of citations' : http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/12/04/academic-journals-with-a-presence-on-twitter-are-more-widely-disseminated-and-receive-a-higher-number-of-citations/

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Sam & McArthur discuss the mysterious world of academic conferences, and address the latest in trigger warnings research.

A podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

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Sam describes his recent PhD confirmation experience.

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real world PhD students. Sam is studying public health and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

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Sam gets his first publications, and they discuss the great debate between qualitative and quantitative research, and try to flip the script on what constitutes good quality research.

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Show Notes:

Neuroscience Needs Behaviour: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28182904

Open Science, Collaboration. 2015. "PSYCHOLOGY. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science." Science 349 (6251):aac4716. doi: 10.1126/science.aac4716

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Sam & McArthur describe what a day in the life of a PhD student is actually like. For them. So far.

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

Sam and Mac talk about their first semester teaching at university.

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

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Sam and Mac sit down to hash out the fundamental question that no one wants to answer: why even do a PhD?

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Show Notes:

medium.economist.com/why-doing-a-phd-is-often-a-waste-of-time-349206f9addb

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Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield

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