Skill Set for Young Researchers in the Digital Age Hokkaido University - June 11, 2013 Anders Karlsson. Ph.D., Vice President, Global Academic Relations in collaboration with Ludivine Allagnat, Analyst, Global Academic Relations
Our 3 main points of today What is science publishing Career planning for young scientists Skill set for the future
Science goes digital From Print to Electronic to Solutions Tim Berners-Lee starts WWW project at CERN 1665 1880 1989 2000 Today 1580 1998-1999 2 Source: Publishing Connect, January 2013
ScienceDirect Elsevier Interactive Journal Platform < Go to article > Link to the Journal Homepage (ScienceDirect) View Related Articles Email the article to a friend Email the author Research Highlights Animated Abstracts Video Abstracts Google Maps Interactive Charts Link to articles which cite this one Share the article on Citeulike, Facebook & Twitter And much more 3 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0092867406009767
Elsevier: privileged vantage point on the global world of research #1 Global Provider of STM information 24.0% 28% 26.3% 2011 Papers 2011 Citations(5 years data) Each year 1 Million+ manuscripts submitted to 2,200 Elsevier journals 300,000+ articles published 600 million+ digital article downloads delivered to 10 million researchers 49 million+ article citations tracked and counted by Scopus (20,500+ journals) Terabytes of data: SciVal analytical tools 4 Songquan Deng
The Science Journal Universe as covered by Scopus Materials Science Neuroscience Physics & Astronomy Medicine Mathematics 5 Source: Scopus
Researchers want to share quality results AUTHOR Quality Check -Peer Review Author Submits Editor Screens Reviewer(s) Editor Print Publish LIBRARY READERS 6
Peer Review Essential Value Science cannot happen in a vacuum. Aside from lab space, instruments for experiments, researchers also need access to trusted sources of accurate information in order to produce quality results. Olivier Dumon, Managing Director, Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier Huffington Post, April 26, 2013 7
New scientific and technical information environment platform Open to Accelerate Science 加速する科学への対応力向上 8
Our 3 main points of today What is science publishing Career planning for young scientists Skill set for the future 9
Charting a course for a successful research career A guide for Early Career Research Prof. Alan M. Johnson Wide-ranging topics: planning your career preparing a grant funding application selecting a research discipline selecting a mentor http://japan.elsevier.com/publishing/ecr/index.html 10
Researcher career pathways From science PhD to careers outside academia 11 Source: The Royal Society publication, The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity
Follow your passion the dots will connect! Lecturer Science Publisher Post Doc M.Sc., Ph.D. Science Diplomat Assistant Prof. Associate Prof. Professor Visiting Scientist Visiting Professor EU Project manager 12
For a successful Research Career 共同研究 Research Collaboration ネットワーク構築 Networking 業績を売り込む Selling Your Accomplishments 13
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants 14 http://www.biggerbrains.com/career-planning-guide
Our 3 main points of today What is science publishing Career planning for young scientists Skill set for the future 15
Network and share and learn with others! Use Facebook AND REAL LIFE to share your passion/frustration of working in science with family & friends Use LinkedIn to grow a professional network inside and outside science Social Network For Scientist 16
Global Brain Trade Which countries have the most foreign scientists, and which ones suffer from the worst brain drain? 17 Source: World Bank, National Bureau of Economic Research (Massachusetts); Web-based survey of over 17,000 published scientists in 16 countries (2012)
17 Monitor brain circulation - JAPAN case
English as the International Language of Science 88%* of scientific publications are in English Ratio of the number of journal articles published by researchers in English to those in the official language of 8 different countries (1996-2011) Source: Scopus; *proportion of English language content in Scopus (88.4%), Publication languages in the Arts & Humanities, www.researchtrends.com 17
Bad English the official language of the World? We have English as the group language, and sometimes we joke and say we have bad English as a group language. Leif Johansson, Chairman of Ericsson, former CEO of Volvo Just 4% of all English conversations are between two people both fluent in the language 20
21 Importance to Publish Internationally 1 US, 2 European and 2 Japanese Universities
Collaboration Overview Scientific impact increases with - National collaboration - International collaboration - Collaborations with corporate sector with corporate maybe the best results are not published, but patented? Source: SciVal 22
Summary Career Planning International Collaboration Global Mindset Networking Be curious of other fields 23
Useful Links Information/News for researchers Early Career Researchers Guide for ECR For Authors Author Workshops Elsevier Connect JST JSPS Nature Science http://www.elsevier.com/earlycareer http://japan.elsevier.com/publishing/ecr/index.htmll http://japan.elsevier.com/publishing/index.html http://japan.elsevier.com/news/events/aw/index.html http://elsevierconnect.com/ http://www.jst.go.jp/ http://www.jsps.go.jp/ http://www.natureasia.com/ja-jp/ http://www.sciencemag.jp/ Tools Scopus ScienceDirect www.scopus.com www.sciencedirect.com ERC: Early Career Researchers 24
Transforming Research Accelerating Science Please feel free to contact! Anders Karlsson. Ph.D., Vice President, Global Academic Relations a.karlsson@elsevier.com