Principles of scientific research you have to know

Elias Hossain
3 min readMay 4, 2020

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I can still remember the day when I was inspired to do research but I didn’t have the strength to write a scientific manuscript even there were no selfless individuals around myself, however, time is gone. Although it was slightly tough for me, I acquired some ethics which I am going to talk about today. In this article, you will learn what are the crucial ethics to begin scientific research.

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Ensure Trustworthy & Ethics

To ensure trustworthy & ethics you have to summarize your study naturally and it connects to your purposes for instance, what you have done already, your experimental data, your decisions and whether you have published anything previously. To illustrate, it can be seen that many researchers tend to transform their research into another context by changing some data or title which is not ethics. In other words, you should not use any unpublished data without author permission since you will go after being caught stealing and lose reputation. When accomplished with others, you should continuously keep to any compromises, and represent sincerely.

Avoid using meaningless data which does not make sense

Not having knowledge of ethics, it can be seen that much unnecessary data being used that does not make any sense. For example, if your hypothesis belongs to Bangladesh poverty and if you provide data which is not connected to the hypothesis is meaningless. On the other hand, as research is a systematic way where the contribution is organized orderly manner so that the data should be experimented and clearly organized.

Don’t steal data from a senior thesis or somewhere else

We acquire ethics from the school, college, university, or professional organization, likewise, the research consists of crucial ethics which is extremely essential to become a researcher or to write an academic thesis paper. Although everything is currently accessible on the Internet where many articles, documents or anything else can be found, moreover, it is common in academic theses that collect something from older thesis paper and use them without evaluation which usually violates the ethics of research. Academic or whatever, taking any kind of data from another’s research paper does not fall into ethics without his permission.

Research Objectivity

Usually, the research objective explains briefly what the investigation is attempting to accomplish. Try to avoid prejudice in exploitative configuration, data representation, data review, peer evaluation, reward writing, expert evidence, and other perspectives of research. To summarize, It is suggested to avoid prejudice and individual-deception.

A good illustration of this is when I was a 4th-semester student, I wrote a scientific manuscript only from my curiosity. As far as I remember that I was submitted the manuscript in an Indian conference and dramatically it had been rejected by 94% plagiarism. Before starting the research, one should have a good idea about some ethics because to be a researcher, just being able to do good work is not the key. But how much I know about ethics and how accurately I accomplish is a big concern.

Taking everything into consideration, this article discusses the principles of research that are required for everyone to start research or write a scientific manuscript. Even though many more research principles can be found, however, I think this deontology is very essential which everyone should know to begin research.

May your journey towards research be successful……………………

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Elias Hossain
Elias Hossain

Written by Elias Hossain

CS PhD Student at Mississippi State University

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