Dear Researcher,
Faculty and Student Friends
Three Years back, a
few students who are applying to the US requested me to prepare a “Step by
Step Approach to develop a Systematic Literature Survey (SLR) based Paper
Publication”. In earlier days, it used to take at least 1 month to
conduct a fundamental literature survey for a basic paper publication. On
top of it, the author needs comprehension skills, English
articulation skills, and of course domain understanding to write a paper. Hence
paper publication skill is limited to a few people.
In this context, I
made a step-by-step approach for developing SLR based article (you may
refer - https://www.slideshare.net/RaviSaripalle/step-by-step-approach-to-systematic-literature-review-slr-journal-paper-first-time-authors-research-navigator).
If you simply follow the steps mentioned in this presentation, you can write
a paper in 10 days’ time!
However today my
presentation becomes meaningless! Chatgpt 3 or 4 is coming in the form of a
technical tsunami. It hardly takes 3 seconds to generate 10 different titles if
you know the basic theme of your paper publication. It takes 10 seconds to
generate 30 different publication references. It takes 10-15 seconds to
finetune your introduction paragraph and another 30 minutes to clean and make
it your way. If you have experimental results with you, it takes 3 days to
write a decent paper!
Now, what is the
question? Is it
killing creativity and novelty? Or is it killing the natural language
ability to write a paper? Or is it helping the researcher to focus more on
research, curiosity and exploration, and experimentation?
Let me answer this
way.
In the 1980s,
people used to physically visit various libraries and write a paper on physical paper.
Often availability and accessibility of the physical papers/books, repetitively
copying the same matter again and again on multiple A4 papers, and finally
making a fair copy to submit, are certain limitations to those researchers. It
is also a discouragement to the creativity and originality of the
researchers.
Later type machines
came and partly solved the fair copy issue but still,
accessibility and availability remained challenges. Later word processing and
the internet solved these issues to a great extent but the ability to write
English, articulation, etc are a few limitations.
Grammarly/Jasper
Type of tools came into existence to solve grammar issues, but still
individual has to reach so many sites to gather literature. Still,
limitations of the search capability, and articulation remained as
bottlenecks.
In all these cases,
researchers are still worried about other aspects than original experimentation
and results analysis. Chatgpt 3 and Chatgpt 4 are solving these issues. Last week I was
helping with one article. Hardly it took 10 minutes to complete all these
mundane tasks and helped us to focus on core results and discussion sections,
which are fundamental to the research. In this process, Chatgpt gave access to
certain core articles which we would have missed in our traditional literature
survey process.
Obviously, the
chatgpt platform is a bane to a few traditional researchers. However, it is
a boon for the new-age researcher. They should focus more on
identifying the root problem, applying Design Thinking, and Developing relevant
solutions. They need not focus on literature surveys and how to write a paper!
Dear Students, when
the market is facing a recession, you should make your resume strong. Paper publications
make your resume superior. If you are planning for higher education, paper
publications are a must. Please start using Chatgpt and publish a few basic
SLR-based papers.
Using ChatGPT for
literature surveys and scientific research is legal. However, Springer
Nature clarified that ChatGPT can't be credited as an author on a research
paper. Ultimately, research must have transparency in methods, and
integrity and truth from authors. You also need to see the aspects of the
model's unreliability in terms of providing accurate or authentic references
and citations. Please read this article before you start making your next
research article- https://www.animateyour.science/post/how-to-use-chat-gpt-opportunities-and-risks-for-researchers
Life and Time never
remain constant! Physical Paper-Type Writer & Shorthand – Word
Processor & Internet – Productivity Tools like Grammar Editors, Jasper AI
Copywriter/AI Content Generator – Chatgpt-3 – Chatgpt 4 (analyze image-related
queries as well)- Next what?? Stay tuned!
So, are you ready
to publish your next scientific SLR-based article?
Ravi Saripalle
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