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Further reading
Here are just a few links to websites that you may find
interesting. Check my website for more links:
www.talent4science.eu; and send your favorites to
info@talent4science.eu.

Top science repositories

www.nobelprize.org The official website with all the
information about Nobel Prize winners. Who will be the next
Nobel Prize winners? Unfortunately, you can only win Nobel
Prizes in a few scientific disciplines.

www.f1000biology.com and www.f1000medicine.com Two

sites, one devoted to the biological and one to the medical
arena, showing how these fields are organized and reporting
what they consider to be the hottest scientific publications.

scholar.google.com Google’s search engine for scientific

publications. Includes citations and links to related papers.

info.scopus.com Large abstract and citation database of

research literature, patents, and selected web sources.

www.researcherid.com A global, multidisciplinary scholarly

research community. Use profile websites to build up your

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network, make sure to keep them up to date or linked into

your main personal webpage.

isiknowledge.com A site to find what someone in science has

published and how many times that work has been cited (and
by whom); also gives impact factors for scientific journals,
and a lot more. Probably accessible through your university
account or library website.

www.creamofscience.org Example of how a national

research organization ranks their top scientists (in this case
the Netherlands). It would be nice to aim for a mention on
such a list.

Top science journals

www.nature.com A website that leads to the expanding
number of Nature journals with high impact. You would be
proud to see your name in any of them. But don’t assume this
is the one and only holy grail.

www.nature.com/reviews Nature Reviews journals are an

important source of reviews, opinions, and perspectives.
Very useful if you want to get up to date on a topic.

www.trends.com Like the Nature Reviews journals, an

important source to get started or updated.

www.sciencemag.org Like Nature, an important general

journal.

Popular science journals

www.newscientist.com and www.the-scientist.com
Easy-to-read introductory articles on all kinds of science.
Recommended reading for a wide and general interest.

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Some international funding agencies

www.hfsp.org
www.nih.org
www.nsf.org
erc.europa.eu
cordis.europa.eu

Planning tools
Read more about planning tools, e.g. Gantt charts
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart) and Pert charts
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERT).

Academic skills
www.cambridge.org/features/for_scientists Books on
academic skills from Cambridge University Press, e.g. How to
Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper by Björn Gustavii.

www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/Letter_bold_para.doc
Shows how to write a top abstract for your paper.

www.nature.com/naturejobs/magazine/index.html For jobs

of course! And for how to make the most of your job.

sciencecareers.sciencemag.org Another very useful site for

jobs and information about careers in science.

“Nature’s guide for mentors” by Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis,

and Philip Campbell, Nature, 2007: 447, 791–797.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) offers a collection of papers

entitled “Ten simple rules for . . .”; see collections.plos.org/
ploscompbiol/tensimplerules.php

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www.hhmi.org/labmanagement gives a practical guide to

scientific management for postdocs and new faculty, “Making
the right moves” by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

www.nationalpostdoc.org National Post-doctoral

Association, with references to mentoring publications and
web resources.

www.sense-online.nl SENSE, Society of English Native-

Speaking Editors, can provide a list of freelance editors, some
of whom can tackle scientific texts. There are also links via
some journal websites to editing services (see journal’s
“Guideline to authors”).

Personal development
www.thework.com provides four simple questions to
investigate your opinions about other people. As a result of
your answers, you may want to change some beliefs that you
now realize may be limiting. Several books (e.g. Question
Your Thinking, Change The World, by Katie, Hay & House,
Inc.).

www.franklincovey.com provides books on the seven habits

of highly effective people (e.g. The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic, by Covey,
Simon & Schuster Inc.). There’s now a book out on the eighth
habit.

www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyResearch/Books provides links

to some interesting academic books on management (e.g.
Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework, by
Quinn et al., Wiley & Sons Inc.).

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Autobiographies of Nobel Prize

winners
Read an autobiography of the really top scientists in your
favorite discipline. Your Watson and Crick (winners of Nobel
Prize for Medicine in 1962 for their breakthrough discovery of
the structure of DNA).

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