I am a young and aspiring researcher who has just entered my first year of college. In the future, I want to get my research published. Can someone explain the whole pipeline for getting my work out there?
Ten minutes of Googling gave me a lot of terminologies, and I am quite confused right now. There are multiple publishers and different types of publications like journals, white papers, conference papers, and meta-analyses. Additionally, there are databases like Google Scholar and Scopus that index your work, and organizations that assign research IDs to every researcher.
Can somebody please help me make sense of all these things or at least guide me towards resources that would help me understand the whole pipeline and the associated terminologies?
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I can’t eli5 this so much, but I can provide a 60-page PhD level guide to some aspects of the process. [link](https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11041649/WritingTips_0720.pdf?sequence=5)
Publishing good papers in good journals is the ultimate skill of a researcher. It takes typically about ten years of training before you can do this independently.
In undergraduate, get all your basics for your field down pat — straight A’s in core classes, research seminars, and internships are the minimum here. This will mean you have the skills to understand your field and an understanding of what research is.
If you like this and succeed at it, you may progress to a pre doctoral program, a research masters, or a PhD. (In some fields like life sciences, you might already contribute to some papers as a junior author.) After five years of professionally participating in the research process and contributing to projects, you’ll have a good understanding of how research is done. You might even have published something on your own or as lead by now!
Then your career begins in earnest — you have to independently figure out what is an interesting question, how to produce answers for it, and how to communicate these effectively to peers. And that is research! You’ll do great if you focus on the long run and work hard at what is in front of you.
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