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How do you define a meaningful research contribution for a new paper?
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Defining your paper’s contribution is central to framing the whole manuscript. Some contributions are conceptual, others methodological or empirical. How do you clearly articulate what makes your work a genuine contribution?
Dylan Rogers, Donald Thomas and 23 others4 Comments-
I try to state the contribution in one sentence that someone outside my subfield understands.
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Distinguish whether my contribution is a new idea, a new method, or new evidence.
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Position the contribution explicitly against the most closely related prior work.
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Weakly articulated contributions often get highlighted by reviewers as a major weakness.
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