Steps to Select

Research Topic

Rida Qayyum
Govt. College Women University Sialkot
For Inquiries:
Email: ridaqayyum6@gmail.com
Agenda
– Initial Suggestions and commitment
– Procedure to find out the research topic
– Finding research article
– How to Find most recent article
– How to ensure, article is related to your topic
– How to ensure, the research quality
– How to ensure ISI journal
– How to find the exact topic (Five stages)
– Outcome
Initial Suggestions & Commitments

– Maybe you know the better way about ‘finding research topic’, so
contribute and help others.
– Never ask to anyone to assign you the research topic because you
don’t have enough knowledge without reading in this domain
– Try and find out research topic yourself.
– I am committed to complete it with the help of ALLAH SWT.
Procedure to find out the Research Topic

– Decide your sub-domain under your interesting subject/domain

i.e. Location Based Service (LBS) Systems under Networks.
– Read the relationship between core domain and sub-domain.
– Select any attribute to define scope and define your research
scope. i.e. Privacy
privacy provisioning in LBS Network systems.
Finding Research Article
– Google Scholar
– IEEE
– ACM
– Springer
– Sciencedirect
– Elsevier
– Citeseerx
Any many digital libraries.
Some of these are free but mostly are paid. So contact in your circle who have the
access.
Finding Research Article
– In case of google scholar
– https://scholar.google.com/
– Make query using keywords in search area as
“provisioning privacy + LBS Network Systems”
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– This
How to Find most recent article

– This
Ensure, article is related to your
topic
– Open the link and read
– Title
– Abstract (minimum 5 times or until you understand properly word by word)
– Conclusion (If available)

– Now, if you are sure the paper is very related to you, now move
toward its quality.
How to ensure, the research quality

– before downloading make sure that the quality research work

– Normally, Institute for Scientific Information(ISI) Thomson ISI
journals don’t compromise on quality.
– Peer Review
– Reviewed by well known reviewers
– Reviewed by multiple reviewers
– Review process take minimum 2 Months.
 Web of Science (previously known as Web
of Knowledge) is an online subscription-

Ensure ISI journal

based scientific citation indexing service
originally produced by the 
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI),
now maintained by Clarivate Analytics
 (previously the Intellectual Property and
Science business of Thomson Reuters[1]),
that provides a comprehensive citation
– Is it ISI Journal? search.

– http://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/JCRLandingPageAction.action

– Web of Science (Current Name)

– Web of Knowledge (Old name)
– now maintained by Clarivate Analytics
– Web of Science contains Core categories
– Incite Journal Citation Report (JCR) contains only JCR list.
– (http://mjl.clarivate.com/) include all categories.
A quality and related stuff is available
 Find Out The Exact Research Topic

– Stage-1
– Collect minimum 30 research articles related to defined scope. (both Research article and Review
article)
– Read the papers thoroughly including
– Title,
– Abstract
– Introduction
– Related Work
– Methodology
– Results
– conclusion
– Future work

– Write one page summery of each article.

 Stage-2

– Select 15 from 30 research articles (but not review articles) that have
purely applied some methodology .
– Read, understand and compare the proposed solutions.
– What mechanism they used to solve this problem?
(Find in methodology section)
– What are the parameters the used in their methodology? (find in results and
discussion section)
– How strong is the proposed solution as compare to other approaches. (find in
results section)
– Make taxonomy of proposed approaches based on parameters and features.
 Stage-3

– Select top 5 research articles from stage 2 under one class.

– Consider that You are the co-author of these 5 papers.
– Understand everything in these papers.
– Understand the selected class in detail from other resources (Research
articles, Books etc.)
– Ask yourself (What and why) about selected class.
 Stage-4

– Select top 2 research articles from stage 3, having same mechanism.

– It couldn’t be happen that same work is published.
– One using base approach
– Second one use enhanced version of same approach.
– But the target is same.
– Ask yourself (What and why) about selected class.
– Consider yourself the author of these two papers. You must be know
the implementation completely.
– Apply Reverse engineering
 Conclusion Stage

– Think gently and Note down the following points from last two
papers.
– What are the limitations?
– What is future work?
– Being an author, you know the proposed approach very clearly,
however think that how we can enhance the proposed approach?
(consider the parameters level)
– Consider toward hybrid approach.
– Implement other approach (from stage 2,3) using same parameters.
 Outcome

– You may decide your exact topic by

– Fixing the limitations
– Working on future work plan.
– Improving existing model.
– Proposing a new hybrid approach if applicable.
– Implementing other approach (from stage 2,3) using same parameters.
– You already have done 80% work for a strong survey paper. Now
just format it according to journal/conference manuscript format.
OUTCOME

– And finally, one selection from above list is your topic.

– Hope now, you are on your track. 

– Help others, ALLAH will help you.

Thank You 