Is getting published more important than gaining deep research experience?
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both are equally important
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Getting published is great, no doubt, but if you don’t truly understand what you’re researching, what’s the point? Deep research experience shapes your thinking, and the papers will come as a result. In the end, it’s the learning that stays with you.
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Both are inter connected
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It your researches are getting published, then automatically you are getting the experience.
These are the things which cannot work on individual level. They run simultaneously all together.
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Getting published is definitely valuable — it adds weight to your CV and shows academic activity — but it shouldn’t come at the cost of real, hands-on research experience. A publication without truly understanding the research process is like wearing a medal without running the race. Deep research experience teaches you how to ask the right questions, handle data, think critically, and troubleshoot — skills that are far more lasting and meaningful than just your name on a paper. So ideally, aim for both — but if you have to choose, always value the learning first. The papers will follow when the work is genuine.
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Both has to maintain for strong build up
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Both are important but I guess research experience is equally important as getting published
So both should be considered equal.
Most important is the guide you get :”(
Both are important @Nandhini_23 but I believe gaining deep research experience should come first.
When you truly understand your work, the quality of your research improves and then getting published becomes much easier and more meaningful. Publications are important but real learning and skills from research last a lifetime.
Both are equally important
Publications provide valuable experience in writing, editing, and adhering to protocols. While research offers a different perspective, having both is essential.
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To produce competent publications and research, one must have a sound understanding of the concepts and work involved. This is only attainable through practical experience and a deep understanding of the physical applications and experiments.
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yes gaining the research experience is more valuable than published because in publishing we get to know just about the topic. but by practically researching on the specific topic may give us in hand experience and knowledge is to be gained so that we can answer any question to the people who ask about it..
Both are equally significant, as one without the other will have no value. A significant research experience makes one truly understand the process of a discovery like starting from crafting the hypothesis and moving towards building the objectives, reviewing/exploring the existing literatures, finding the gap and how to contribute to that area, proposing theories, performing the experimentation, analysis of the results, and finally generating the important conclusion emerging out of the research study. All of these stages provide a different type of learning and this is what makes someone a true researcher. But the value of a researcher is mostly known to the world only through the visible output (in terms of publication) that comes out from that deep work. Writing a scientific publication is another kind of learning, as that demands one to know about the research journals, their impact factors, a specific pattern that one need to follow for writing a peer-reviewed research article and also addressing the significant research questions that will be posed and should be asnwered diligently. Besides, a research mostly has value when it comes in the form of a publication and stays in the global library of research performed worldwide. Ultimately, doing only research is not important, one is doing it because somewhere that scientific contribution has to find a place through which the lives of people can be enhanced or atleast their knowledge can be uplifted.
Absolutely we will get the knowledge while working on a research paper, but conveying what we got in our research helps other people with a similar research question. Publication is the only way we can share our findings, sincere effort we have put and experience we got through the research.