In addition to checking the results, the review comments are also a part that cannot be ignored. What aspects will the letter comments focus on? Let's take a look together
Analysis of the opinions of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2019-2021
The journal "Tumor Prevention and Treatment" once published an article "Analysis and Countermeasures of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Letter Reviews from 2019 to 2021 in a Specialized Cancer Hospital". This article found the most concentrated problems in the bidding documents through the natural language recognition method.
Based on the 584 judges' comments of 187 projects declared by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in a provincial tumor hospital from 2019 to 2021, the author used natural language recognition to screen out negative words and summarize them. The existing problems are analyzed, and corresponding countermeasures are put forward in order to improve the winning rate of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Negative vocabulary word clouds were formed by extracting negative words from the comments in each tender, and the more prominent words and sentences displayed in the word cloud showed more such problems.
The study found that the problems mainly focus on innovation, feasibility, research basis, research content, scientific issues, project basis and application form. Among them, innovation, feasibility, research foundation, and research content are the four most concentrated issues, ranking the top four in all three years.
Innovation is the most frequent issue in all tenders, ranking first from 2019 to 2021, accounting for 24.83%, 46.24% and 36.64% respectively. Insufficient innovation and not strong innovation are the main reasons why most bids are not funded.
So, how to do innovative research?
The soul of scientific research is innovation, because only through innovation can we continuously solve problems and constantly surpass ourselves. "How to do innovative research" should be a question that every scientific and technological worker has been thinking about.
Let me share the experience and impressions of "how to do innovative work" shared by Academician Pu Muming in his speech at the annual meeting of the Institute of Neurology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (with deletions).
(1) Broad spread of tentacles
Take listening to academic reports as an example. If you think that the work is not related to you, you are not interested in listening to it, then you are wrong. In fact, you often need to listen to reports that seem to have nothing to do with your work. After listening to these reports, you may suddenly have some ideas and inspirations, and you can apply things from other fields to your own field to make innovative work. It may be more important to listen to reports that have nothing to do with you than to listen to reports that are directly related to your work. The same goes for meetings, sometimes it is more rewarding to attend meetings that are not related to your work than those that are directly related to your work.
(2) Explore history
Learning the history relevant to your research work is also very beneficial for doing innovative work.
When reading literature, don't just look at the work described in the literature (What was done?). There are also four "W"s - you should also know who did it (Who did it?) , when (When?) , where (Where?) , and why (Why? ) .
(3) Selective reading
Don’t publish one article in your field and read one article , download a hundred articles from the computer at once, download all the literature in your field, and sit there all day long to read. For starters, this amount of reading is bad for your health and bad for your creative mind.
Why? These documents frame your mind, and there is a lot of information in your mind. You don't know how to analyze the information, don't know their importance, and which information is reliable? Which ones are unreliable? You have no judgment. You take it all in and mess up the whole train of thought. Even if you've been in the field for a while, you don't need to read every article published in your field.
(4) Dare to take risks
Innovative work often requires risk taking. Many new jobs may lead to important results, but they are also likely to fail. People dare not do it. Do you dare to do it?
Much of the truly important innovation work requires taking big strides, taking risks where no one else has gone before, and using methods no one else has used.
(5) Treat criticism positively
Unless you're really a genius like Einstein or Mozart ( whose creativity comes from no one knows ), you need to help yourself and improve your creativity by other scientists' criticism of your work. Creativity often arises from the criticism of a group of scientists with creative thinking . When you constantly face various scientific challenges and are willing to accept and solve these challenges, your thinking will become more and more creative and more creative. Plus sharp, sophisticated.
A positive attitude towards criticism is very important for the growth of a scientist. The more you can humbly listen to other people's opinions and seriously consider the positive side of criticism, the more you can improve yourself.
(6) Learn from scientists with creative thinking
A place where many creative scientists gather is the best place to foster creativity.
Every great scientist has a biography or an autobiography written by himself. If you carefully look at how he does good work, if you read more, you will gradually change your thinking and make you more creative. . Simply put, careful reading of the works of creative scientists is an effective way to foster creativity.
Reference source:
【1】Analysis and countermeasures of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in a tumor hospital from 2019 to 2021 [J]. Cancer Prevention and Treatment, 2022(004):035.
【2】Academician Pu Muming gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Institute of Neurology, Chinese Academy of Sciences "How do doctoral students do innovative research?" "