April 5, 2009
As usual, there is a great advice on the subject from Terence Tao. See also a paper in the Science Careers. The comments with further suggestions and links are welcome!
Another useful tip from the Lifelong Scholar’s blog: whenever you take a break, make you sure you have a specific task to do when you get back to work.
Update: there are many more resources on the academic productivity. To list a few,
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April 3, 2009
Some advice on the subject can be found in the article by Richard Reis and in the book by Steven G. Krantz (the second link is from the discussion of the Secret Blogging Seminar’s post on the subject). As for the letters of recommendation for students, see also here, here and here.
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March 31, 2009
Phil Agre‘s Networking on the Network contains plenty of great advice on academic networking — building a net of colleagues and collaborators. See also interesting related materials here, here, here and here. As for collaboration per se, see the links in my post on writing. See also this post at SBS on the conference networking.
Update: An interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. See also this post on Academia 101.
Is there an academic counterpart for social networks like the Facebook? Yes. I have found Academia.edu, and there is plenty of sites of this kind (the Nature Network is just another example, and the Researchgate is yet another)
Update 2: see my comment exchange (1 2 3 4 5 6) with Bee (her responses are right under my comments except for #6) at the Backreaction blog regarding the academic networking.
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March 23, 2009
I have just found some great advice on how to boost your citation count, i.e., get more citations for your publications (which may, as you well know, increase your visibility in the science world and your chances of getting tenure) . An interesting discussion of the so-called Matthew effect in science (to start, see the classical papers by Robert K. Merton here, here, and here) and its influence on the citation patterns can be found here.
Update: I also found some interesting tips on how to get your papers cited here and here.
As for the general advice on writing research papers, see excellent writing tips from the blog of Terence Tao.
Update 2: making your work available online (e.g. at the arXiv; see this post of Terence Tao for further details) can significantly increase its chances to be cited (but be careful with the copyright issues when making available the work you have already published).
Update 3: Also, quite obviously, publishing your paper in a high-impact journal may increase its chances of getting cited. But submitting your papers to the journals perceived as prestigious has plenty of caveats — see e.g. this post by Terence Tao and this post by Massimo.
Update 4: see this post about the citation trading at ectropy.info
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March 16, 2009
This is a series of four articles at Inside Higher Ed by David E. Drew and Paul Gray:
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
These authors have also recently published a book on the subject but I haven’t got it yet.
However, I’ve just found a presentation which appears to be a nice summary of the book (important note: the link in this paragraph works even though Snapshots says it doesn’t!).
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March 10, 2009
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March 10, 2009
The career advice from Sir Michael Atiyah (see also his lecture containing some bits of career advice (hat tip: N.E.W.)), Béla Bollobás, Alain Connes, Dusa McDuff, and Peter Sarnak is here:
Advice to a Young Mathematician
This is an excerpt from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. By the way, the most recent errata for PCM are here.
See also great advice from E.W. Dijkstra and J.H. Conway, excellent career advice and writing tips from the blog of Terence Tao, and Six Rules for Rewriting at the Michael Nielsen’s blog.
Finally, here go the interviews containing some nice bits of career advice: Alain Connes, Maxim Kontsevich, Sergey Novikov, Terence Tao (see also his Google buzz page and this blog post).
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