Communication In Scientific Research

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Communication is essential for scientific practice. As several specialized sources have stated, the fact that the number of articles and publications have been used for a long time as an indicator of scientific growth, have established scientific production as a validation measure for research processess and activities. Scientists not only communicate their results to the scientific community by publishing articles, preprints, giving lectures or making presentations in scientific conferences and meetings. Furthermore, they also rely on the previously existing knowledge, i.e., previously published works, in order to carry out their researches, to formulate proposals and research methodologies, among others. Moreover, exchange of information, perspectives and views with other colleagues is an essential part of the research activity. Therefore, communication is present in all stages of research processes.

As scientific communication experts have expressed, scholarly communication can be considered as the process used by scholars in any scientific field (for …show more content…

As several publications report, just a small part of the information on the Internet can be defined as scholarly; hence, it is easier to obtain non-scholarly information. Furthermore, accessing the World Wide Web looking for scientific information can lead to scientific materials derived from many traditional forms of scientific and technical literature, such as directories, institutional reports, bibliographic databases, data sets, journals’ articles, newsletters, legislation and regulations, among others. Therefore, a scientist, who needs to find a specific kind of information related to the research he is carrying out, without expending much time surfing on the web, may find this approach not effective since a time and cost point of

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